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Question.1 My table got locked during MLOAD due to a failed job. What do I do to perform
other operations on it?
Answer: Using RELEASE MLOAD. It removes access locks from the target tables in Teradata. It must be
enteredfromBTEQandnotfromMultiLoad. Toproceed,youcandoRELEASEMLOAD.

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Question.2 How to find duplicates in a table?

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Answer: Group by those fields and select id, count(*) from table group by id having count (*) > 1.
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Question.3 How to you verify a complicated SQL?

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Answer: IuseexplainstatementtocheckifthequeryisdoingwhatIwantedittodo.
Question.4 Did u ever use UPPER Function?
Answer: UPPERFunctionisusedtoconvertallcharactersinacolumntothesamecharactersinuppercase.
Question.5 What does a LOWER Function do?
Answer: LOWERfunctionisusedtoconvertallcharactersinacolumntothelowercasecharacters.
Question.6 How do you see a DDL for an existing table?
Answer: Byusingshowtablecommand.
Question.7 Which is more efficient GROUP BY or DISTINCT to find duplicates?
Answer: WithmoreduplicatesGROUPBYismoreefficient,ifonlyafewduplicatesexistDISTINCTismore
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Question.8 Syntax for CASE WHEN statement?

Answer: CASEvalue_expression_1WHENvalue_expression_nTHENscalar_expression_nEND
Question.9 Whats the difference between TIMESTAMP (0) and TIMESTAMP (6)?
Answer: TIMESTAMP(0)isCHAR(19)andTIMESTAMP(6)isCHAR(26)
EverythingissameexceptthatTIMESTAMP(6)hasmicrosecondstoo.
Question.10 How do you determine the number of sessions?
Answer:
Teradataperformanceandworkload
Clientplatformtype,performanceandworkload
Channelperformanceforchannelattachedsystems
Networktopologyandperformancefornetworkattachedsystems.
Volumeofdatatobeprocessedbytheapplication.
Question.11 What is node? How many nodes and AMPs used in your previous project?
Answer: Nodeisadatabaserunninginaserver.Weused318nodesandeachnodehas2to4AMPS.
Question.12 What is a clique?
Answer: Cliqueisagroupofdiskarraysphysicallycabledtoagroupofnodes.
Question.13 Interviewer explained about their project (Environment, nature of work)?

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Question.13 Interviewer explained about their project (Environment, nature of work)?

Answer: Listentothemcarefullysothatattheendoftheinterviewyoucanaskquestionsabouttheproject
whenyouaregivenachancetoaskquestions.
oftheproject.
Question.14 What is the difference between FastLoad and MultiLoad?
Answer: FastLoadusesmultiplesessionstoquicklyloadlargeamountofdataonemptytable. MultiLoadis
usedforhighvolumemaintenanceontablesandviews.Itworkswithnonemptytablesalso.Maximum5tables
canbeusedinMultiLoad.
Question.15 Have you used procedures?
Answer: No.Ihavenotusedprocedures.ButIhaveexpertiseknowledgewritingprocedures.Mycompany
have not encouraged me to write procedures because it becomes single AMP operation, as such uses lot of
resourcesandexpensiveintermsofresourceandtime.
Question.16 What is the purpose of indexes?
Answer: AnindexisamechanismthatcanbeusedbytheSQLqueryoptimizertomaketableaccessmore
performant.Indexesenhancedataaccessbyprovidingamoreorlessdirectpathtostoreddataandavoiding
the necessity to perform full table scans to locate the small number of rows you typically want to retrieve or
update.
Question.17 What is primary index and secondary index?
Answer:
PrimaryindexisthemechanismforassigningadatarowtoanAMPandalocationontheAMPs
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disks.Indexesalsousedtoaccessrowsfromatablewithouthavingtosearchtheentiretable.
Secondary indexes enhance set selection by specifying access paths less frequently used than the primary
indexpath.Secondaryindexesarealsousedtofacilitateaggregateoperations.Ifasecondaryindexcoversa
query,thentheOptimizerdeterminesthatitwouldbelesscostlytoaccessesitsrowsdirectlyratherthanusingit
toaccessthebasetablerowsitpointsto.Sometimesmultiplesecondaryindexeswithlowindividualselectivity
canbeoverlappedandbitmappedtoprovideenhanced
Question.18 Why primary and secondary index is used?
Answer: Referanswerfrompreviousquestion.
Question.19 What are the things to considered while creating secondary index?
Answer: Creating a secondary index causes Teradata to build a subtable to contain its index rows, thus
adding another set of rows that requires updating each time a table row is inserted, deleted, or updated.
Secondary index subtables are also duplicated whenever a table is defined with FALLBACK, so the
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