Viewpoint Scrum Experience
At the beginning of our current release, the Viewpoint engineering team decided to split itself into multiple cross-functional, self governing scrum teams. Each team consists of 5-10 members that are...
View ArticlePerformance Testing - When is it time for a System Tune Up?
How do you determine your system’s performance prior to the dreaded customer call asking why their queries are running longer? What’s the impact to the business when the warehouse environment is under...
View ArticleHTML5 Cache Manifest: An Off-label Usage
The HTML5 cache manifest is the caching mechanism for the W3C’s specification for offline web applications. Files cached by the manifest are not deleted when a user clears the standard browser cache,...
View ArticleJavaScript String.length and Internationalizing Web Applications
The native JavaScript String.length is a count of 16 bit code points in a string, which can present a problem in some cases when counting characters and splitting strings in internationalized web...
View ArticleBackbone.js and socket.io
Backbone.js is a lightweight JavaScript MVC framework. The default transport mechanism for CRUD operations is XHR. Socket.io is a Node.js Web Socket server. This article provides an overview of using...
View ArticlePart 1: Backbone.js + Require.js
This article provides a brief introduction to JavaScript AMD and MVC technologies. It then details a working example of modularizing the Backbone.js 101 tutorial, “Todos” by Jérôme Gravel-Niquet, using...
View ArticleTeradata Data Lab User Guide
The Teradata Data Lab User Guide 14.00 explains the concepts of data labs and provides an in-depth explanation of the associated Viewpoint portlets with this new Teradata product offering. read more
View ArticleTeradata Data Lab and Viewpoint 14.0 releases
Teradata is very pleased to announce the official release of the new product offering called Teradata Data Lab. At this same time, Teradata is releasing the new Teradata Viewpoint 14.00 version. These...
View ArticleViewpoint PDK
Teradata Viewpoint Portlet Development Kit (PDK) is the starting point for building portlets for the Viewpoint platform. The PDK is a set of APIs, user interface widgets, styles and other assets that...
View ArticleWorking with Dates in Viewpoint Javascript
The Viewpoint Portal allows the user to configure their Viewpoint User Profile to display dates in the correct format for any locale and any timezone that is desired. This user profile information is...
View ArticlePast & Present: Understanding Teradata's Workload Management transformation
Teradata's Workload Management offerings have drastically changed over the past few years. Further, not only has the functionality changed, but the product delivery mechanisms have changed as well....
View ArticlePart 2: Backbone.js + Require.js, Further Modularization and Just in Time...
This article is a continuation of Part 1: Backbone.js + Require.js. It outlines further modularizing the Todos application presented in part 1 and introduces “just in time” module loading. read more
View ArticleManaging Teradata Data Lab users with TASM
This article describes how Database Administrators can use Teradata Active System Management (TASM) to manage queries that execute against tables in Teradata Data Labs. This allows analysts to obtain...
View ArticleTeradata Data Lab - "Live"
Interested in the new Teradata Data Lab product release but left wondering how it may apply to your Teradata environment? Are you one of those "seeing is believing" people? Here we present a series of...
View ArticlePart 3: Backbone.js + Require.js, Improving AMD Performance by Priming the Cache
This article is a continuation of Part 2: Backbone.js + Require.js, Further Modularization and Just in Time Dependency Loading. It describes how to use a cache manifest to improve just in time...
View ArticleTeradata Data Labs Tutorial
This Teradata Data Lab tutorial will demonstrate how businesses can easily provide self-service analytic capabilities within the production data warehouse with automated governance. This tutorial will...
View ArticleTeradata Alerts / CAM 14.0 released
Teradata is pleased to announce the Teradata Alerts / Common Alerting Mechanism (CAM) 14.0 release effective March 14th, 2012. A few of the key feature additions include running actions on Linux, a new...
View ArticleTwo Turn Tables and a Mixin
This blog entry provides a brief introduction to underscore.js mixins. read more
View ArticleMigrating from Teradata Manager to Viewpoint
Moving forward with Teradata 13.10, Viewpoint will be the tool of choice for system management. Audience: Data Warehouse Administrator, Data Warehouse Architect/Designer, Data Warehouse Technical...
View ArticleEpisode IV: A New Platform (Backbone.js + Require.js)
This is the final installment of a four part series on modularizing the Backbone.js Todos application using Require.js. It examines porting the application to the Pokki platform. read more
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