The "Teradata Users Guide - The Ultimate Companion" is the finest Teradata technical book on the market. Written by the best Teachers and Consultants in the business, Tom Coffing and his team of Teradata Certified Masters have written an easy to use, easy to understand guide that has all the information a user will need to be effective.
It covers the Teradata Basics, Logging on to BTEQ and Queryman, a Queryman Tutorial, an SQL Challenge that allows users to teach themselves SQL, an SQL Quick Reference Guide, understanding joins, explains, temporary tables, a Utilities Guide and more. Written in a friendly and motivating way this guide promises to be the one stop shop for the Teradata users' needs.
Tom Coffing and his team of Teradata Certified Masters have trained over 10,000 users worldwide over the past decade. This guide is brilliantly designed to be everything to every user from the new and inexperienced user to the power user.
Tom Coffing is an internationally known consultant, facilitator, speaker, trainer, and executive coach with an extensive background in data warehousing. Tom is also the president of Coffing Data Warehousing. Out of the 100 Teradata Certified Masters that exist today, ten work for Coffing Data Warehousing.
Tom has helped implement data warehousing in over 40 major data warehouse accounts and has provided consulting and Teradata training to over 6,000 individuals involved in data warehousing globally. Tom has a bachelor's degree in Speech Communications and over 25 years of business and technical computer experience. Tom is considered by many to be the best technical and business speaker in the United States. He has trained and consulted at so many Teradata sites that students affectionately call him Tera-Tom.
Tom has co-authored the following eight books on Data Warehousing:
Secrets of the Best Data Warehouses in the World,
Teradata SQL - Unleash the Power
Tera-Tom on Teradata Basics
Tera-Tom on Teradata E-business
Teradata SQL Quick Reference Guide - Simplicity by Design Teradata Database Design - Giving Detailed Data Flight Teradata Users Guide -The Ultimate Companion
Teradata Utilities - Breaking the Barriers
Mr. Coffing has also published over 20 data warehousing articles and has been a contributing columnist to DM Review on the subject of data warehousing. He wrote a monthly column for DM Review entitled, "Teradata Territory". He is a nationally known speaker and gives frequent seminars on Data Warehousing. He is also known as "The Speech Doctor" because of his presentation skills and sales seminars.
Tom has a reputation for being able to speak to a wide variety of technical and business users. He makes technical information easy to understand and combines his speaking skills, technical skills, and business experience to motivate audiences worldwide
