Yeah, I know. All you need is another “thing to remember to do” following your upcoming hardware upgrade. As if your “must do” list wasn’t long enough already.

Well, consider what I’m giving you as a “soft” list…Its a few things worth checking after an upgrade, but the sky won’t fall in if you don’t get to it right way. So relax, take a deep breath, and ponder my post-expansion soft to-do list at your leisure.

I just got back from speaking at the San Francisco Teradata User Group meeting and my topic included techniques for controlling concurrency of load utilities. When I polled the audience, I was surprised and disappointed that so few in the audience were using utility throttles.

I’m a huge fan of utility throttles in Teradata, and I’d like to tell you why.