PDW Database Restore

Using below command you find the backup header information for all backup sets on a given backup devise

Restore headeronly from disk = '\\10.10.10.10\PDWBackups\FullBackup_02052015\DWLOADER_staging'

Restore a database using Full backup 

Restore database DBAAdmin from disk = '\\10.10.10.10\PDWBackups\FULL\05052015\AdventureWorksPDW2012.bak'

Restore a database using differential backup 

Restore Database DBAAdmin1 from disk = '\\10.10.10.10\PDWBackups\FULL\05052015\AdventureWorksPDW2012_Diff.bak' 

with BASE = '\\10.10.10.10\PDWBackups\FULL\05052015\AdventureWorksPDW2012.bak'  

 

In above statement full backup is '\\10.10.10.10\PDWBackups\FULL\05052015\AdventureWorksPDW2012.bak'  

and differential backup is \\10.10.10.10\PDWBackups\FULL\05052015\AdventureWorksPDW2012_Diff.bak' 

Limitations in the restoration is 

The backup set can only be restored to a SQL Server PDW destination appliance that has the same number or more Compute nodes than the source appliance. It cannot have fewer Compute nodes than the source appliance.

SEE ALSO 
How to Take PDW DB Backup
How to connect PDW Instance
Grant access on PDW Backup Share/Node

Execute queries in PDW

After login into PDW Server ( How to Login into PDW )

 Right click on the server name and click on New Query option in the pop-up window

It will open new window in right side 

Type the query to execute in right side window 

to execute query use below option 

 Mark the query which you want to execute and use CTRL + SHIFT+ E

or Mark the query which you want to execute and click on the below button

it use master database and execute the query and shown below results 

use below options to show the results in grid,text, file