Teradata Identity Columns and CREATE TABLE AS Facing hurdles with the Teradata Identity columns and Volatile Tables? Buckle up because ...

Outsmarting Teradata Limitations: A Workaround for Teradata Identity Columns in Volatile Tables

The Teradata flavor of SQL is still, in principle, a declarative language. Hence, there can be multiple ways to describe ...

Improving SQL Performance with Simple Query Rewrites: Dealing with Duplicates and Business Calendars

Occasionally, it is necessary to utilize a cursor within a stored procedure to execute specific functionality. I recently encountered a ...

Improving Stored Procedure Performance with Teradata MAPS Architecture

Introduction Applying column joins in Teradata using functions may indicate a flawed data model, potentially violating the first normal form. ...

Negative Impact of Applying Functions to Join Columns in Teradata Joins: Performance Implications and Solutions

Teradata Statistics Histograms – A Short Introduction Many are familiar with Optimizer’s statistical confidence levels. I was recently surprised to discover ...

Understanding Teradata Statistics Histograms: How the Optimizer Estimates Cardinality for WHERE Conditions

The Art of Teradata Performance Tuning As a Teradata Performance Tuner, technical expertise and experience are essential, occasionally accompanied by ...

Mastering Teradata Performance Tuning

What are the Goals of SQL Tuning? Resource consumption must be minimized to optimize a database system, and three crucial ...

SQL Tuning Goals: Improving Performance and Reducing Resource Usage

Add Snowflake, BigQuery, and Redshift to your Knowledge As a passionate Teradata expert, I have fine-tuned thousands of SQL queries ...

Optimize Query Runtimes and Save Costs with Cloud Data Warehousing Platforms: Snowflake, BigQuery, and Redshift

1. Statistics In Teradata, comprehending and overseeing statistics is essential for optimizing database performance. Statistics provide the optimizer with precise ...

Optimizing Teradata Performance through Statistics and Primary Index Selection

Teradata ORDER BY and Performance To employ a basic sorting algorithm, all rows must be present in one location for ...

Optimizing Performance with Teradata ORDER BY: How Sorting is Done in Parallel Without Bottlenecks