AMP worker tasks are the dedicated tasks inside each AMP that get the database work done. As there are a limited number, this important resource is actively monitored by DBAs on busy systems. TASM system-level events can take care of the monitoring for you, and based on a threshold you have set set, will trigger changes in workload management setup to manage the AWT shortage. How AMP worker task events do their monitoring has changed in Teradata Database 13.10, and this posting describes those changes.
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