Finding Broken Views in Teradata

I have a few trouble tickets that have been lingering in my queue for longer than I care to admit. A couple of these tickets have to do with views that point to base tables that no longer exist in the data model. I should have realized that when I suggested that these incidents be […]

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A Data Quality Riot Act

As the son of a former Marine Chief Warrant Officer (CW2) I have not only seen the occasional riot act being doled out to my brother; I have been on the receiving end of a few myself.  I have discovered that in order for your data quality initiatives to be successful you need someone who […]

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Teradata Database Object Summary

In my previous blog post I showed how to build an Object Catalog of your Teradata data warehouse. Trouble is even on moderately sized systems your Object catalog could result in tens of thousands of rows. One of my object summaries is over thirty thousand rows. This can be overwhelming if you hand it off […]

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