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 […]

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 […]

A user over at TeradataQuestions recently asked a if there was a table in Teradata that allowed you to track the growth of tables or databases over time. The short answer to this question was no. The data dictionary tables in Teradata only provider the current information about tablesizes and the current and max sizes […]