This 24-hour training course covers administration and maintenance of the IBM Netezza data warehouse appliance. The course will teach students how to setup and configure the Netezza emulator, load and manage databases and data, perform backups and restores, tune performance, and monitor the system. Hands-on labs are included to practice administrative tasks like creating database objects, loading data, and running backups and restores. The detailed course outline covers all aspects of Netezza architecture, configuration, SQL usage, and maintenance.

1. IBM NETEZZA DBA
(a.k.a Puredata system for
Analytics)
Duration: 24 hours
Pre requisites:
• Basic Operating system knowledge and Unix/Linux commands exposure
• Basic knowledge on SQL commands and RDBMS concepts
• Basic knowledge on Unix/Linux commands
• DBA experience on any OLTP/OLAP environments is an added advantage
Lab setup:
• Windows 7/8 64 bit machine that supports Virtualization
• VMWARE 7 or above
• Netezza Emulator 7.x
• RHEL/Windows iso
Training Material:
• Class PPT’s (Soft copy)
• Class Recordings
• Netezza 7.x PDF’s (Soft copy)
• Netezza Emulator setup softwares
• Unix & Shell Scripting training videos (Complementary)

2. Course Outline:
• NPS AMPP Architecture
• Netezza Emulator setup
• NPS High availability architecture (Clustering, mirroring, failover)
• Netezza command line interface (CLI)
• Netezza admin & client software installations
• Creating databases and data objects
• Data distribution (Random, Hash)
• Data Loading and Unloading (CLI, GUI)
• Backup and recovery
• Database refreshes & migrations
• Netezza Events
• Optimizer & Query plans
• Workload Management
• Statistics, Zonemaps, CBT, Groom table
• Views, System Views, Materialized Views
• Performance Tuning Techniques
• Monitoring logs
• Query history collection & reporting
• Netezza Replication/DR Architecture
• ODBC/JDBC/OLEDB client connectivity
• Netezza 7.1 features
• Netezza 7.2 features

3. Detailed Course Contents:
 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 other Datawarehouse appliances in the market
 Netezza Appliance models
 Netezza Host Filesystems (/nz, /export/home, /nzscratch)
 Host High availability and clustering
 Controlling DRBD with Heartbeat
 Netezza HA Administration
 Netezza disk mirroring (Replication, Failover, Regeneration)
 S-Blade Failover
 Netezza Emulator Installation & Setup
 NZADMIN, ODBC Drivers Installation
 Aginity Workbench Installation
 Netezza IP Addresses
 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

4.  NZSQL command line options
 NZSQL Internal slash commands
 Create Database, Table, Synonym, Sequence
 Create View, Materialized views, user, groups
 System tables, views, privileges (object, administrative)
 SQL Identifiers, Netezza Data types, Internal Datatypes
o Lab: Emulator installation, NZSQL slash & sql commands
 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
 Data Loading using NZLOAD
 Data Loading usinng NZLOAD fixed format
o Lab: Database objects creation, Data Loading/unloading (both CLI & GUI)
 Database Level backups/restores (Full, Differential, Cumulative)
 Schema Level backups/restores
 Global backups/restores
 Host level backups/restores
 Netezza Events (Setup & Monitoring)
 Query/Audit history collection
 Work Load Management
 Concurrent Jobs

5.  Resource Sharing Groups
 Gatekeeper Scheduler
 GRA Scheduler
 Snippet Scheduler
 Resource Scheduler
 Short Query Bias
 NZSYSTEM:Change system registry values
 Introduction to NZSTOP, NZSTART, NZSYSTEM RESTART
 Extents & Zonemaps
 Clustered Base Tables (CBT)
 Groom table
 Skew Table
 Transactions
 Statistics(Database, Table, Column, System)
 NZ* commands
 Netezza System logs
 Netezza hardware replacement procedure
 Working with IBM support to resolve operational issues
 Netezza Appliance models
 Netezza 7.1 features
 Netezza 7.2 features
o Lab: Backups & Restores, Netezza restart, Skew, Groom Table

6.  Resource Sharing Groups
 Gatekeeper Scheduler
 GRA Scheduler
 Snippet Scheduler
 Resource Scheduler
 Short Query Bias
 NZSYSTEM:Change system registry values
 Introduction to NZSTOP, NZSTART, NZSYSTEM RESTART
 Extents & Zonemaps
 Clustered Base Tables (CBT)
 Groom table
 Skew Table
 Transactions
 Statistics(Database, Table, Column, System)
 NZ* commands
 Netezza System logs
 Netezza hardware replacement procedure
 Working with IBM support to resolve operational issues
 Netezza Appliance models
 Netezza 7.1 features
 Netezza 7.2 features
o Lab: Backups & Restores, Netezza restart, Skew, Groom Table