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The Teradata Parsing Engine (Optimizer) is Cost Based
The Parsing Engine (PE) is often referred to as the Teradata Optimizer, and it will actually generate several plans to choose from and ultimately choose the one with the lowest cost of resources. This is critical to performance in supporting mixed workloads ranging from OLTP to large joins and Decision Support (DS). All cost based optimizers require statistical information about the data and the machine resources (CPU, disk, memory, processors, etc.).
The other type of optimizer is a rules based optimizer which is designed for transactional On-Line Transaction Processing (OLTP) workloads where ...
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