How Teradata SQL Assistant Works
Teradata SQL Assistant uses either a .Net Data Provider or an ODBC connection to combine the data retrieved from a database with desktop applications such as Excel to create consolidated reports or to analyze the merged data. Teradata SQL Assistant records all SQL activity, complete with source identification, timings, row counts and notes. This is especially useful in data mining because the historical record can be used to build scripts from the SQL that produced positive results.