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Node

A hardware assembly containing several tightly coupled central processing units (CPUs).
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SMP Ȃ Symmetric Multi Processing

An SMP Teradata Database has a single node that contains multiple CPUs sharing a
memory pool.

MPP Ȃ Massively Parallel Processing

Multiple SMP nodes working together comprise a larger, MPP implementation of a

Teradata Database. The nodes are connected using the BYNET, which allows multiple
virtual processors on multiple nodes to communicate with each other.
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PARSING ENGINE

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PARSING ENGINE

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ë =nterprets SQL statements and check syntax.

ë Consults data dictionary to ensure that all objects exist.
ë Also checks the access rights for users.

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ë !evelops least expensive plan which are converted to executable steps.

ë To maximize throughput and reduce resource contention, optimizer should know
system configuration, available units of parallelism & data demographics.
ë Teradata optimizer is robust and intelligent.
ë Parallel aware and cost-based using full look-ahead capability.

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ë Controls the sequence in which steps are executed and passes the steps to BYNET.
ë Composed of two tasks- execution control and response control.
ë Makes sure that all AMP͛s have finished a step before the next step is dispatched.
ë !epending on nature of SQL requests, a step will be sent to one AMP or all AMPs.

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ë ïeceives the step definitions from Parser.
ë Transmits them to appropriate AMP͛s for processing.
ë ïeceives status report from AMP͛s as they process the requests.
ë Passes the results to response control one AMP͛s have completed the processing.

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ë ïeturns the result to the user.