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Last Updated : 27th April 2004
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Performance Optimization Tools and
Techniques
 Performance Optimization Techniques
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Indexes Choices
Macros & Views
Reducing Row Size – Compression
Optimization Through SQL Tuning
Join Indexes
Hash Indexes
Partitioned Primary Index
Priority Scheduler
Expanding your Teradata configuration.
 Query Analysis Tools
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Explain/Visual Explain Facility
Query Capture Facility
Target Level Emulation
Teradata System Emulation Tool
Teradata Index Wizard
Teradata Statistics Wizard
 System Monitoring
– Resource Usage
– Teradata Manager
Indexes
 Types of Indexes supported by Teradata
 Unique Primary Index
 Non-Unique Primary Index
 Unique Secondary Index
 Non-Unique Secondary Index
Unique/Non-Unique Indexes
 A Unique Index identifies one & only one data row
 A Non-Unique Index identifies one or many data
rows
Criteria For Index Selection
 Primary Index
* The column (or column set) chosen should be the
set selection most frequently used to select rows
from the table and should be unique (UPI) or close
to unique (NUPI).
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Criteria For Index Selection
 Secondary Index
* Secondary indexes always have an associated subtable.
* The column (or column set) chosen should be a
frequently used set selection.
* Large Table/Small table Joins :
 Joins that involve three or more small tables and one large table
are called Large Table/Small Table (LT/ST) joins.
 The optimizer first joins the small tables together and then joins
that result with the large table (also called as Product/Merge
Join).
 To work well, the join fields of the small table must comprise an
index of the large table. The join fields do not have to be indexes
in the small table.
 Collect statistics for all tables on their indexes used in a query.
Value Ordered NUSIs
 NUSI rows are stores row hash order which is very
efficient for the queries with equality condition on
the SI column(s).
 Queries with inequality conditions on the SI
column(s) typically does full table scan of SI
subtable.
 Value ordered NUSI rows are sorted by data value.
It is possible to search only a portion of the index
subtable for a given range of key values.
 Value-ordered NUSIs are very efficient for range
queries.
Partitioned Primary Index
 Performance benefit from data locality is achieved
by creating local partitions of data rows within
each virtual AMP.
 Following performance benefits can be achieved
by PPI
 Large performance gain for range queries.
 Improves load time.
 Deleting entire partition is very fast.
 PI access are not affected.
Explain Facility
 Allows you to experiment with different
approaches to an answer, then select the one that
performs best.
 Provides information about the relative time the
query would take to execute.
Identifying Columns to Index
 Run EXPLAINs on typical queries with and without
indexes defined on various columns to determine
which performs best.
 Run HELP INDEX tablename statements to
produce information helpful for interpreting the
EXPLAIN statements you run.
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Identifying Columns to Index
 Run COLLECT STATISTICS on the tables to be
indexed to provide data for assessing the
cost/benefit balance afforded by indexes.
Macros
 Teradata macros are SQL statements that are
stored on the server and executed there.
 Macros are particularly useful for improving
performance.
Views
 Views provide a means for application
programmers to develop and test SQL statements
that are highly optimized.
 These views can then be provided to users who
can use them without worrying about tying up
system resources needlessly.
 Well written macros provide the same facility.
Compressing Columns
 Most frequent value of a column can be
compressed to reduce the row size.
 Tables with large numbers of rows and fields with
limited numbers of unique values are very good
candidates for compression.
 CPU cost overhead for compression processing is
minimal.
Optimization Through SQL Tuning
 Correlated Sub queries
 Correlated sub queries are faster than use of a temporary table
as Correlated sub queries fully integrated with the global join
plan to minimize the cost.
 Case Expression
 CASE expressions help increase performance because they
return multiple results in a single pass over the data.
SELECT item_number, item_description,
item_price as “Current//Price”
,CASE
WHEN item_season = ‘summer' and item_count < 3
THEN item_price *(1-.50)
WHEN item_season = ‘summer’ and item_count >= 3
THEN item_price *(1-.25)
WHEN item_season = ‘spring’ THEN item_price * (1-.33)
ELSE NULL END AS “Sale//Price”
FROM inventory_table
WHERE item_season in (‘spring’ or ‘summer’);
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Optimization Through SQL Tuning
 Ordered Analytical Functions
 Using Ordered Analytical Functions, you can perform data
analysis within the database engine itself taking full advantage
of Teradata parallel architecture.
 CALENDAR view for date related operations.
 Optimized Empty table INSERT/SELECT.
INSERT INTO Summary_Table
SELECT * FROM Store1;
INSERT INTO Summary_Table
SELECT * FROM Store1
INSERT INTO Summary_Table
SELECT * FROM Store2;
; INSERT INTO Summary_Table
SELECT * FROM Store2
INSERT INTO Summary_Table
SELECT * FROM Store3;
;INSERT INTO Summary_Table
SELECT * FROM Store3;
Join Indexes
 A Join Index is a data structure that stores and
maintains join results.
 Frequently executed joins can be stored in Join
Indexes to improve performance.
 Join Indexes are maintained automatically.
 Join Index  Stores pre-joins without de-normalizing the database.
 Stores summary data without de-normalizing the
database.
 Replicates the tables on the same AMP for join.
 Sparse Index - Can be used to index a portion of a
table.
Hash Indexes
 Hash indexes create a full or partial replication of
a base table with a primary index on a foreign key
column table to facilitate joins of very large tables
by hashing them to the same AMP.
 Eliminate data distribution for join processing.
Priority Scheduling
 Can be used to control resources allocated to
users.
 Administrator can specify performance group
while creating the user.
 It manages resource distribution to improve
performance of one application at the expense of
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Additional SMP/MPP Nodes
 You can increase the performance of a
Teradata RDBMS by adding SMP nodes to
your system. Performance increases at a
nearly linear rate with the addition of SMP
nodes to the configuration.
 Each MPP system is certified to support
as many as 512 nodes. More nodes can be
added on a custom basis to improve
Performance.