Teradata – Most Currently Updated Stats
This is a quick query that I use to check if the on the stats job that ran over night. Much faster then running the “SHOW STATISTICS” for each table. … Continue Reading →
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This is a quick query that I use to check if the on the stats job that ran over night. Much faster then running the “SHOW STATISTICS” for each table. … Continue Reading →
Teradata systems have a couple of command-line utilities to verify the health of a Teradata node. Both these command-line utilities are good to run when looking for something like hardware … Continue Reading →
The “node.check” utility has been been around for a while with Teradata. Recently I was working with Teradata’s Hardware Support team, and watched them use this utility to uncover a … Continue Reading →
This one also surprises me that someone has not already posted. The TD_Month_Of_Year function returns an integer value that need to converted to string value. Careful when using this on … Continue Reading →
This surprises me that someone has not already posted this. The TD_Day_of_Week function returns an integer value that need to converted to string value. Careful when using this on a … Continue Reading →
Recently I received an e-mail alert that my collect statistics job had a spool space error (“Failure 2646 No more spool space in…”) for one of the statements it ran … Continue Reading →
A user was unable to connect to Teradata from Toad DataPoint using a Microsoft Active Directory account. When I looked at the user account in Teradata, it was showing as … Continue Reading →
Stopping & Starting the services for Teradata Viewpoint are the same in Teradata Express as they would be on an actual Teradata Viewpoint server. Recently I needed to do this … Continue Reading →
When attempting to drop a database that I created for temporary use, I received the following error when I ran the “DROP DATABASE < database name >” command: DROP DATABASE … Continue Reading →
The problem with the table DBC.AccessRights is that the data is not something easily readable. Many of the columns use a 4-byte IDs. By joining a couple of tables to … Continue Reading →