This course is a combination of IBM Netezza Appliance Usage (DW501) and IBM Netezza Appliance Advanced Concepts (DW510). This course will teach you database administration for the Netezza Appliance. The Netezza Appliance Usage course is designed to give you an overview of the Netezza appliance architecture and provide a working knowledge and understanding of the Netezza database features and best practices. You will be able to administer the Netezza appliance,configure client connectivity, create databases and tables, determine distribution methods, load and unload tables, GENERATE STATISTICS, analyze query plans, create materialized views and backup and restore the Netezza appliance. You will also learn advanced database administration skills for the IBM Netezza Appliance. The Netezza Appliance Advanced Concepts course is designed to give you a working knowledge and understanding on Netezza appliance internals to optimize Netezza appliance performance and tune system parameters. This course will provide an overview of Netezza appliance administration and analysis. You will learn how to analyze Plan files, perform query analysis and troubleshooting, optimize data distributions, interact with advanced CLI commands, use nzsql and workload management. This course is appropriate for customers who have IBM Netezza 100 or IBM Netezza 1000, formerly known as Skimmer and TwinFin.