TeraTeam UK Teradata DBA Definition
Transient Journal:
Transient Journal - an area of space in the DBC database which is used primarily for storing of roll-back information during inserts/deletes/updates of tables.
Alerting procedures should be in place to alert DBA's when the transient journal is nearing it's maximum space usage. This is usually a result of poor loading practice, such as inserting large volumes of data in to an already populated table, whereby rollback information must be stored until the insert is complete.
TeraTeam UK can implement and manage Transient journal Monitoring and other housekeeping and alerting Procedures.
