IBM Netezza Appliance Usage and Advanced Concepts

This course is a combination of IBM Netezza Appliance Usage (DW500) and IBM Netezza Appliance Advanced Concepts.

This course will teach participants database administration for the Netezza Appliance. The Netezza Appliance Usage course is designed to give the participant an overview of the Netezza appliance architecture and provide a working knowledge and understanding of the Netezza database features and best practices. Participants will be able to administer the Netezza appliance,configure client connectivity, create databases and tables, determine distribution methods, load and unload tables, GENERATE STATISTICS, analyze query plans, create materialized views and backup and restore the Netezza appliance.

Participants will also learn advanced database administration skills for the IBM Netezza Appliance. The Netezza Appliance Advanced Concepts course is designed to give the participant a working knowledge and understanding on Netezza appliance internals to optimize Netezza appliance performance and tune system parameters. This course will provide an overview of Netezza appliance administration and analysis. Participants will learn how to analyze Plan files, perform query analysis and troubleshooting, optimize data distributions, interact with advanced CLI commands, use nzsql and workload management.

This course is appropriate for customers who have IBM Netezza 100 or IBM Netezza 1000, formerly known as Skimmer and TwinFin.