Greenplum Database Administrator Guide

    • Greenplum Database Concepts
      This section provides an overview of Greenplum Database components and features such as high availability, parallel data loading features, and management utilities.

    • This section describes basic system administration tasks performed by a Greenplum Database system administrator.
    • Defining Database Objects
      This section covers data definition language (DDL) in Greenplum Database and how to create and manage database objects.

    • Greenplum Database relies on even distribution of data across segments.
    • Querying Data
      This topic provides information about using SQL in Greenplum databases.

    • External tables provide access to data stored in data sources outside of Greenplum Database as if the data were stored in regular database tables. Data can be read from or written to external tables.
    • Managing Performance
      The topics in this section cover Greenplum Database performance management, including how to monitor performance and how to configure workloads to prioritize resource utilization.