Version 16.10 - ODBC Driver for Teradata

ODBC Driver for Teradata® User Guide

Product
ODBC Driver for Teradata
Release Number
17.00
Published
June 2020
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2020-08-22
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Product Category
Teradata Tools and Utilities

Key Features

  • Smart LOB (SLOB) Support
  • Kerberos Enhancements – This feature enables single sign on (SSO) support using Kerberos authentication on UNIX clients: Solaris, MacOS, AIX and HP-UX. This support already exists for Linux clients (JDBC, CLI, and ODBC) and Windows clients (JDBC, CLI, ODBC, and .NET). This feature allows centralized management of user accounts and credentials using Kerberos.

Key Changes in Product Behavior

Improvements introduced with this version of ODBC Driver for Teradata include the following:
  • Now supported on AIX 7.2
  • Now supported on Apple OSX 10.11
  • Performance improvement when querying column and procedure information
Features introduced with this version of ODBC Driver for Teradata include the following:
  • Support for row size up to 1MB and Maximum Response Buffer Size up to 16MB
  • Added support for Windows Session character sets supported in past DBS releases
  • Allow support for multiple driver instances from 16.00 onward:
    • Starting with ODBC Driver for Teradata 16.00, you can have multiple versions of the ODBC Driver installed on one machine.
    • The default driver name has been changed from Teradata to Teradata Database ODBC Driver XX.YY, where XX.YY is the version of the ODBC Driver.

      For instance, the default driver name for ODBC 16.10 is Teradata Database ODBC Driver 16.10.

      This change in driver name will affect applications that have the old driver name Teradata hardcoded in their connection strings.

    • The installation of ODBC Driver for Teradata will no longer automatically migrate DSNs. DSNs belonging to the older versions of the driver will not be converted to the newly installed version of ODBC Driver for Teradata.
  • Support round-trip Unicode character pass-through

Key Changes in System Behavior

Key Change Description
ODBC-16557 Allow support for multiple driver instances (side-by-side installation) from ODBC 16.00 onwards.
  • Starting with ODBC 16.00, you can have multiple versions of the ODBC Driver installed on one machine.
  • The default driver name has been changed from "Teradata" to "Teradata Database ODBC Driver XX.YY", where XX.YY is the version of the ODBC Driver.

    For instance, the default driver name for ODBC 16.10 will be "Teradata Database ODBC Driver 16.10".

    This change in driver name affects applications that have the old driver name Teradata hardcoded in their connection strings.

  • The installation of the ODBC Driver will no longer automatically migrate DSNs. DSNs belonging to the older versions of the driver will not be converted to the newly installed version of the ODBC Driver.

Deprecated/Removed Features

There are no deprecated/removed features for this release.