Database Object Use Count - Advanced SQL Engine - Teradata Database

Database Introduction

Product
Advanced SQL Engine
Teradata Database
Release Number
17.05
17.00
Published
June 2020
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2021-01-23
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lifecycle
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Product Category
Teradata Vantageā„¢

The database administrator and application developer can use Database Object Use Count to capture the number of times an application refers to an object.

Database Object Use Count captures counts for the following:
  • Databases
  • Tables
  • Columns
  • Indexes
  • Views
  • Macros
  • Teradata Database stored procedures
  • Triggers
  • User-defined functions

Object use access information is not counted for EXPLAIN, INSERT EXPLAIN, or DUMP EXPLAIN statements.

Once captured, you can use the information to identify possibly obsolete or unused database objects, particularly those that occupy significant quantities of valuable disk space. Further, Database Object Use Count information can be useful to database query analysis tools.