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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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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Building a Teradata Object Catalog

Recently I was asked to provide an inventory of a production Teradata system that included a list of all user created objects and as much information about the objects that I could gather included perm space usage, row counts, and object type. Two of the three could easily be gathered using the data dictionary tables […]

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