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Creating Database Connections for Teradata Installations

If you are using a Teradata database, follow this procedure to create database connections.

To create database connections for Teradata installations

1. Using the Teradata ODBC driver, create an ODBC connection for the Teradata database.
2. Set the following variables in the ODBC.INI file:

   DateFormat=AAA

   SessionMode=ANSI

   NoScan=Yes

   For Unicode environments, add the following:

   CharacterSet=UTF8