Multiple choice technology databases

Which of the following is not true about an AMP?

  1. AMP stores and retrieves data using the file system

  2. AMP parses the SQL to determine the type and validity

  3. AMP sorts and formats the output

  4. AMP environment is a Shared Nothing Architecture
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B Correct answer
Explanation

In a Teradata database system, parsing SQL, verifying validity, and optimization are done by the Parsing Engine (PE), not the Access Module Processor (AMP). The AMP is responsible for database operations like storing, retrieving, sorting, and formatting data on its own disk.

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