This book provides information about Teradata Workload Analyzer, which is a Teradata® Tools and Utilities product. Teradata Tools and Utilities is a group of products designed to work with Teradata Database.
Teradata Workload Analyzer (Teradata WA) is a tool that analyzes and generates candidate workloads from a Windows PC. Teradata WA provides three major areas of guidance:
- Recommending workload group definitions. The DBA (database administrator) guides these definitions based on business knowledge and Analyzer-assisted recommendations based on existing workload mix and characteristics.
- Recommending appropriate workload goals
- Recommending workload to AG (allocation group) mapping plus priority scheduler weights