Estimating BLC Space Savings and CPU Usage - Teradata Vantage - Analytics Database

Database Design
Deployment
VantageCloud
VantageCore
Edition
VMware
Enterprise
IntelliFlex
Product
Analytics Database
Teradata Vantage
Release Number
17.20
Published
June 2022
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2025-11-21
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Product Category
Teradata Vantage™

Use the ESTIMATE option for the Ferret COMPRESS or UNCOMPRESS commands to see the estimated block size and CPU usage that will result if you run the command. The results are based on sampling your data.