Preface - Teradata Workload Analyzer

Purpose

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