When you push too much paper into your shredder, it jams; when you pour too much coffee into your cup, it overflows; when you eat too much food, you…well, you know. Everything’s got limits.

One thing that grabbed my attention when I first joined Teradata back in '88, and that I still find striking today, is how the database manages the level of work that enters the system. Managing the flow of work inside Teradata is decentralized, low-effort, and scalable, exhibiting control at the lowest possible level—at the AMP.

In the spirit of "Tis better to give than receive" comes the next blog on cool Viewpoint features, that being the ability to "share" a portlet. The shared portlets feature captures a customized version of a portlet and allows it to be shared as a distinct portlet for use by other Viewpoint users. It will appear in the admin menus as its own portlet including the same permissions options as the original portlet it was derived from. One may ask how does it work? And why would one use it?

October has been the busiest month yet on Developer Exchange, with an array of new content around Cloud Computing, simultaneous with announcements at our Partners 2009 conference. Where to start? Firstly, Mike Riordan introduces the Teradata Express 13.0 family, which is available in Windows and VMware versions.

After a spectacular Teradata Partners Conference, I'm back to do another cool Viewpoint features blog. I want to start out on this one with a little background on how this feature came about. In our first two Viewpoint releases, we focused on Teradata Management and Teradata Self Service aspects. Our customer base increased and with that, so did the importance of Viewpoint in the Teradata customer infrastructure. With that increased base and importance, it became clear that we needed to improve on the management aspects of the Viewpoint Appliance itself.