How Teradata works internally?

[manojmkr]

Hi to All
This is the first time iam entering into this forum, Iam Oracle DBA ,can anybody tell me more about teradata , how it works internally, wat files its going to read before starting the database,i gone through some of the utilities like WINDDI,BTEQ,Queryman,Fastload,tPump,Teradata service control, databasewindow,Vecomp. I got some idea on these utilities . Wat are other utilities we have in the teradata and how it works etc.How to make tuninig part,backup etc.
Please reply me more abt Teradata.

thanks in advance.
Manoj
manojmkr@hotmail.com

 

[tdatgod]

Our Documentation is online

http://www.info.ncr.com/sd/sd-1.cfm?page=td

Might I suggest the

Introduction to Teradata

Then maybe

Database Design
and
Performance Optimizations

click on the 4.1.x version of all the above which is the most current release we have.