This single book teaches the reader everything they need to know about Teradata, the architecture, and how Teradata works. It then gives over 1000 SQL examples that teach them everything. If you went to a desert island and could only take one book, this is the one you want.

'This book will take you through Viewpoint, TASM, and actually setting up workloads. They are some of the most difficult to understand of the Teradata technologies but also the most important. It is a step by step guide that will make these very challenging subjects easy to master. The step by step process, similar to a cookbook, ensures that readers will not be confused. You will see material that you thought was impossible to learn, and you will master it.

In this book, readers will learn the Snowflake architecture with an excellent level of detail. Readers will also learn the clever tricks and tips that make Snowflake unique, including failsafe, time travel, and min-max pruning. In addition, Reader can create all types of Snowflake tables and views and learn how to performance tune Snowflake tables and queries. Readers will also gain significant knowledge of SQL, starting at the most basic level and building to intermediate and advanced lev...

The Aster Data Database Administration book is the Swiss Army Knife for the DBA. This book describes almost every subject on Aster Data. The DBA will be able to utilize the Aster Data AMC to perform heavy Aster Data DBA functions, be able to perform Backups and Recoveries, understand how to create and design tables for maximum performance, setup the workload management, have advanced SQL and Analytic examples at their fingertips, and understand the complicated MapReduce capabilities of Ast...

This book will explain Aster Data so that users are instant experts. It will explain how things are set up, how things work, and all of the advanced analytics that Aster can provide. Like the other Genius Series books, it begins at a very basic level and gradually gets more and more detailed.

The Aster Data SQL and MapReduce book shows you the fundamental architecture that will allow you to fully understand how Aster Data works. You will be able to create tables, perform partitioning, follow the best Aster modeling strategies, and have a great reference for Aster Data SQL. You will also elevate your knowledge immensely from the brilliant MapReduce portion of the books. You will have MapReduce examples, explanations, and workshops that are designed to make you a MapReduce wizard...

The design of the data warehouse is the most important aspect, so this book is a fantastic guide on exactly how to do just that. This book brilliantly touches on the important things a designer needs to do to build a world-class data warehouse. They will clearly understand the environment and all options to enhance the performance based on the design. This will teach you great detail in a high-level manor that really focuses clearly so you won’t get bogged down with too much minutia. It wi...

The Brilliance of Netezza will make all readers instant experts on the architecture of Netezza. With its clever design and “secret sauce” of FPGA Cards and Zone Maps, Netezza is quickly becoming a staple of all major enterprise data warehouses. This is a perfect opportunity to make yourself an invaluable asset to your company by obtaining the kind of knowledge that this book contains.

This DBA book takes the reader deep inside the guts of Teradata, down to the row level, block level, and cylinder level. Readers have an opportunity to understand Teradata at a level that 1% of the world understands Teradata. This book will bring you into the top 1% of knowledge of Teradata.

This book covers all of the traditional utilities at the perfect level with detailed examples and explanations so they’re clear to understand. It then explains TPT perfectly with an example of everything! It covers traditional utilities, BTEQ, FastLoad, MultiLoad, TPump, FastExport, and then all of the TPT scripts that do all of the different aspects of those utilities with real world examples that work.

The brilliance behind the Tera-Tom Genius series is that each book gets deeper and deeper into the details of Teradata. The Business Users book begins with brilliant fundamentals before diving into how Teradata works, how data is laid out, how people are set up as users, and how they are tracked. Business Users will completely understand Teradata at the exact level they need to after reading this book.

This is an opportunity for an executive to understand the complex Teradata technology at a common-sense level. It will give executives great insight into the strengths and weaknesses of Teradata. It will give expert advice about how to lead those who are working under them when it comes to their Teradata system. This book will help them understand what they need to know, and what’s most important to make strategic decisions.