Overview - ODBC Driver for Teradata

ODBC Driver for Teradata User Guide

Product
ODBC Driver for Teradata
Release Number
16.10
Published
May 2017
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2018-07-11
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Product Category
Teradata Tools and Utilities

This chapter provides information needed to use ODBC Driver for Teradata to access Teradata features and extensions to the ODBC standard.

This chapter is divided into the following sections:

Section Heading Contents
Teradata Extensions to the ODBC Standard Extensions above and beyond ODBC that ODBC Driver for Teradata supports for Teradata Database
Connection Pooling (Windows and Apple OS X) Reusing existing connections that are not currently active
Stored Procedures A set of control and condition handling statements that provide a procedural interface to Teradata Database
Auto-Generated Key Retrieval Information about using the auto-generated key configuration option
SQL Descriptor Fields Information on how ODBC Driver for Teradata uses the extended statement information configuration option
International Character Set Support How to configure the driver for character set support
Atomic UPSERT Support for UPSERT in ODBC Driver for Teradata
ANSI Date and Time Restrictions Restrictions that occur for ANSI Date/Time
Period Data Types Information about using Teradata Period data types
Geospatial Types Information about using geospatial and GeoSequence types
Restrictions Current restrictions for ODBC Driver for Teradata
ANSI Migration Issues Migration issues, including: transaction semantics, data truncation, duplicate rows, updatable cursors, and case sensitivity
Configuration Characteristics Access locks and password expiration
SQL Considerations SQL compatibility issues
DSN Settings for Third-Party Applications Lists third-party DSN settings and their specific application