Duration
3 days
Overview
This 3-day course provides administrators with the necessary background to install and maintain the Greenplum database.
Students will learn the essential skills required to use the Greenplum database system. The course explores fundamental concepts using the psql CLI, DDL, DML, and DQL, data loading, backup and restore; data modeling, as well as some performance tuning strategies.
Course Objectives
By the end of the course, you should be able to meet the following objectives:
- Describe Greenplum database features, benefits, and architecture in terms of shared nothing, MPP design and how Greenplum database supports redundancy and high availability
- Install, configure, and administer a Greenplum Database
- Be proficient with DDL, DML, and DQL to access, manage, and query data
- Implement appropriate table storage models, compression, and tablespaces, data distributions, and table partitioning strategies to store data in a Greenplum database
- Understand best practices for data loading
- Be proficient in data modeling and physical design decisions
- Improve query performance by following a number of performance enhancement tips by understanding the Pivotal
- Query Optimizer, database tuning, query profiling, tuning and rewriting, and indexing strategies
- Implement security and access strategies
- Perform backup and restore
Target Audience
Administrators responsible for the installation and maintenance of the Greenplum database, including initial system
preparation, installation and configuration, and the ongoing tuning and troubleshooting.
Prerequisites
- Basic UNIX or Linux command line navigation and administration skills
- Database query language basics, including but not limited to basic SQL knowledge for accessing database objects Fundamental relational database concepts
Outline
- Course Introduction
- Introductions and course logistics
Course objectives
- PSQL and Utilities
- psql CLI utility
- Command Center
- Database Installation and Initialization
- System preparation and verification
- Greenplum Database Initialization
- Defining and Securing the Database
- DDL, DML, DQL
- Roles and Privileges
- Controlling Access
- Managing Resources
- GP Workload Manager
- Data Loading and Distribution
- Implementing table storage models, compression, and tablespaces
- Data loading
- Table partitioning
- Database Management and Archiving
- Managing the Greenplum Database
- Backups and Restores
- Data Modeling & Design
- Data modeling in Greenplum
- Physical design decisions
- Performance Analysis & Tuning
- Pivotal Query Optimizer
- DB Tuning
- Query profiling
- Query tuning and rewriting
- Statistics
- Indexing strategies
This is a version-specific reference outline. Confirm the current syllabus and delivery arrangements with EIEIO.