How it works...

Let's take a look at how the parameters that are defined in the How to to do it... section affect the system and how you can correlate the steps to different areas of Teradata to measure the performance efficiency of a Teradata System:

When you get a high CPU step in your query you might need to step on the preceding process chart to identify and rectify the step. The steps and the chart work hand in hand, and users must be able to identify the bottleneck in their query.