CHECKSUM Integrity Checking and Physical Database Integrity
It is still possible for corrupted data to be written to the database, however. To minimize this problem, users can specify that checksums be performed on individual base tables. Checksums check the integrity of Teradata Database disk I/O operations. A checksum is a numeric value computed from data. For a given set of data, the checksum value is always the same, if the data is unchanged.
Users can specify checksum for individual base tables in DDL via the ALTER TABLE, CREATE HASH INDEX, CREATE JOIN INDEX, and CREATE TABLE requests. See SQL Data Definition Language for information about using these statements.
Because calculating checksums requires system resources and may affect system performance, system-wide checksums are disabled by default on most platforms. Contact Teradata Customer Support if you suspect disk corruption.