Teradata Warehouse Miner ODBC Data Sources - Teradata Warehouse Miner

Teradata Warehouse Miner User Guide - Volume 1Introduction and Profiling
Product
Teradata Warehouse Miner
Release Number
5.4.4
Published
July 2017
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2018-05-03
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Product Category
Software

Teradata Warehouse Miner requires data sources to be defined in a certain manner. Either File, User, System or “Simple” (IP Address or Host Name) data sources can be used. A connection is only required when selecting data from the user interface, when an analysis executes or when result tables are displayed.

When a data source is defined, the name of the Default Database is used as the Teradata Warehouse Miner Source Database. This is the Teradata database where the tables to be analyzed reside. This is only a default and can be changed on the Connection Properties dialog as described in Using Teradata Warehouse Miner.

Similarly, the name given for the Username is used as the default value for the Teradata Warehouse Miner databases.
  • The Metadata Database is the Teradata database containing the Teradata Warehouse Miner metadata.
  • The Result Database will contain any result tables or views.
  • The Statistical Test Database contains the metadata tables that support Statistical Test functions.
  • The Publish Database contains the metadata tables that hold “published” analyses.
  • The Advertise Database contains the metadata tables that hold information about “advertised” output tables, views and procedures.
These are also only default values and can be changed on the Connection Properties dialog.

Once these Teradata Warehouse Miner databases are changed, this information is saved on a per Data Source basis. When you reconnect utilizing a particular data source, Teradata Warehouse Miner remembers the Source, Result and Metadata database settings from the prior connection.

If the Teradata System that Teradata Warehouse Miner will be executed against is configured in ANSI mode, one additional setting needs to be changed when the DSN is defined. In this case, select Options and change the Session Mode from System Default or ANSI to Teradata.

Depending on the version of Teradata and the version of the ODBC driver for Teradata being used, the session character set requested on an ODBC data source may need to be set. See the Orange Book publication 541-0004068-C02 Getting Started: International Character Sets and the Teradata Database for more information.