IBM NETEZZA

(a.k.a Puredata system for

Analytics)
Duration: 3 days/24 hours
Pre requisites:

Basic Operating system knowledge and Unix/Linux commands exposure

Basic knowledge on SQL statements and RDBMS concepts

Developer experience on any OLTP/OLAP environments is an added advantage

Lab setup:

Windows 7/8 64 bit machine that supports Virtualization

6GB+ RAM; 100GB+ hard disk

VMWARE 10 or above

Netezza Emulator 7.x

Training Material:

Class PPTs (Soft copy)

Netezza 7.x PDFs (Soft copy)

Netezza Emulator setup softwares

Course Outline:

NPS AMPP Architecture (1 hour)

NPS High availability architecture (Clustering, mirroring, failover) (1 hour)

Netezza Emulator Setup (2 hours)

Installations: Drivers, Aginity, NZADMIN (2 hours)

Netezza SQL (NZSQL) & backslash commands (2 hours)

Creation of database objects such as databases, tables, etc (2 hour)

Data distribution & best practices (Random, Hash) (2 hour)

Data Loading and Unloading (CLI, GUI) (3 hours)

Analyzing Optimizer & Query plans (1 hour)

Statistics, Zonemaps, CBT (1 hour)

Table Skew, Groom table (1 hour)

Views, System Views, Materialized Views (1 hour)

Functions, SQL Extensions, Joins, Subqueries (1 hour)

Stored procedures, SQL Analytical Functions (2 hours)

Performance Tuning Best Practices (1 hours)

Netezza CLI commands (1 hours)

Netezza 7.1 & 7.2 features

Contents (Day1 8 hours):

About Netezza

Netezza AMPP Architecture

Netezza Architecture fundamental principles

Netezza components terminology: FPGA Core, CPU Core, Disk, Host, S-Blade,
SPU, SPA, Disk Enclosure

Various Netezza appliance models in the market

Various other Datawarehouse appliances in the market

Netezza Host Filesystems (/nz, /export/home, /nzscratch)

Host, S-blade, disk High availability

Netezza Emulator Installation

Netezza drivers, Aginity Workbench Installation

Standard Log Files (Netezza, Linux)

Introduction to Netezza Command Line Interface (CLI)

Netezza CLI options

Finding Netezza system status (NZSTATE)

Netezza SQL Introduction

Netezza Environment Variables

NZSQL command line options

NZSQL Internal slash commands

Netezza SQL Commands

Lab: Emulator installation, NZSQL Internal slash commands, Netezza SQL

Commands
Contents (Day2 8 hours):

Create Databases and Tables, Table, Synonym, Sequence

Create View, Materialized views,

Create users, groups

Create Synonyms, Sequences

System tables, views, privileges (object, administrative)

SQL Identifiers, Netezza Data types, Internal Data types

Data Distribution (Hash, Random)

Data Distribution: Collocated Joins

Data Distribution: Single/Double Redistribution, Broadcasting

Multi Column Distribution

Data Distribution: Best Practices

Data Loading/Unloading using External Tables

Data Loading/Unloading using Compressed External Tables

Table backup using CTAS

Data Loading using NZLOAD

Data Loading using NZLOAD fixed format

Lab: Database objects creation, Data Loading/unloading (both CLI & GUI)

Contents (Day3 8 hours):

Analyzing optimizer plans

Extents & Zonemaps

Clustered Base Tables (CBT)

Groom table

Skew Table

Transactions

Statistics(Database, Table, Column, System)

NZ* commands

Netezza Appliance models

Netezza System logs

Table constraints

Netezza Joins, Sub queries

Netezza Stored procedures

Netezza Functions

SQL Analytics Functions

Performance Tuning best practices

Certification Preparation questions

Netezza 7.1 features

Netezza 7.2 features

Lab: Groom Table, Skew Table, Stored procedures, Analytics Functions