SysSampleOption - Advanced SQL Engine - Teradata Database

Database Utilities

Product
Advanced SQL Engine
Teradata Database
Release Number
17.00
Published
June 2020
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2020-06-15
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B035-1102
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Product Category
Teradata Vantage™

Purpose

Specifies whether Teradata Database should determine the appropriate amount of table data to sample for statistics collection. If not, the sample size will be 100%.

This field is used only when a COLLECT STATISTICS SQL statement does not specify the USING SAMPLE option.

Field Group

Optimizer Statistics

Valid Settings

Setting Description
0 Use Teradata default, currently equivalent to setting 1.
1 Enables system-determined sample percentage up to 100%.
2 Sample percentage is 100% (full statistics).

Default

0

Changes Take Effect

After the DBS Control Record has been written.

Usage Notes

Statistics are used by the optimizer to improve query performance.

Related Topics

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Optimizer statistics fields