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Teradata Geospatial Import/Export Utilities 1.2

Teradata Geospatial Import/Export Utilities 1.2 for Teradata 13.0 (Windows / Linux). For background information on Geospatial, see What can I do with Teradata’s Geospatial Support? And for community support, visit the Connectivity & Extensibility forum.

Recap: October on Developer Exchange

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.

Raising Intelligence - Viewpoint DCS Usage

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.

Can We Speak Confidentially? Exposing Explain Confidence Levels

I gave a presentation at the Teradata Partners Conference last week on the fundamentals of collecting statistics, where I touched briefly on the rules behind confidence levels. I’m using this article to go into further depth, and offer you more examples of how these confidence levels come about. If you look at query plans much, I’m confident you’ll find something of interest in this article.

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Performance Data Collection Recommendations for Major Upgrades

Maybe you are preparing for a floorsweep. . . Maybe you are planning to add more nodes to an existing system. . . Or, perhaps you are upgrading to Teradata 12 or Teradata 13.  In any of those situations, during your planning the question asked is "What can I do to help ensure my upgrade happens in the smoothest way possible?"

TRM Helpful Links

Here are a couple of helpful links in Teradata Relationship Manager (TRM).  These allow you to see all of the security privileges and user groups assigned to the logged in user, as well as a report of the TRM version and detailed environmental information.

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Elastic Marts Builder

Elastic Marts Builder allows business users and developers to easily allocate an elastic data mart (i.e. a database) inside the Teradata System. Using an on demand self service portlet, the user can create a database, upload comma separated values (.CSV) data, and begin analysis – all within 5-10 minutes.

Elastic Marts Builder Portlet

Elastic Marts Builder Installation Guide

This guide explains how to install and configure the Elastic Marts Builder portlet and its utilities.

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What is the Teradata Agile Analytics Cloud?

The Teradata Agile Analytic Cloud allows business users and developers to easily allocate an elastic data mart (i.e. a database) inside the Teradata System. Using an on demand self service portlet (the Elastic Marts Builder portlet), the user can create a database, upload comma separated values (.CSV) data, and begin analysis – all within 5-10 minutes.

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Workload Toolkit Part I – Excessive use of String Manipulation Verbs

We all know the benefits of identifying and fixing badly performing workloads. Many sites use the common method of identifying the top n highest consuming or skewed queries (often the same queries) and fixing those.

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