Teradata Quick refresher for most popular Utilities

Teradata utilities are very important while working with SQL and in data warehousing projects. The below short and crispy definitions help you can use while attending for interviews or in your day to day work to refresh your Teradata knowledge. 

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Top Teradata Utilities

1# MultiLoad 

Inserts, updates, deletes, or upserts rows in a Teradata table by using the MLOAD command-line utility. It can handle multiple SQL statements in a single operation.

You can provide user-defined SQL for complex operations. This stage is best used for bulk updates, deletes, upserts, and complex interface operations.


2# TPump 

Inserts, updates, deletes, or upserts rows in a Teradata table using the TPUMP command-line utility. It can do concurrent updates on the same table. It can handle multiple SQL statements in a single operation. You can provide user-defined SQL for complex operations.


3# FastExport 

Exports data from a Teradata table by using the FEXP command-line utility. You can customize it to use user-defined SQL statements for extraction. This stage is best used for bulk extracts from Teradata.


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