Welcome to the 46th CoffeeCAST with Stephen Hayward of Project X Ltd. Live from Las Vegas. Hello from Vegas – baby.  It is the end of a great week at the Teradata 2007 Partners event and Graham and I have decided to take some time away from the wine and tables to discuss our thoughts on the conference. Monday was a busy day with some great stuff.  So we start by talking about today’s sessions that Graham attended: Teradata Query Optimization Statistics Evenly Distribution across nodes Indexes A Little discussion on Nodes and Amps 20 Tb/hour Backup Backup and Recovery Netvault from Bakbone Software The story from eBay Custom built Sun hardware Leveraging Archmain After Image Journaling Download 46_coffeecast_46_teradata_partners_2007_monday_part_1.mp3 Listen in and we hope you enjoy and more importantly, hope you join in the conversation.  So drop a comment in the blog or send me an email and share your thoughts on the topic. The audiocast is available on iTunes (as a Podcast) or here for download.  Have a great day and join the conversation.