| Siebel Analytics Applications Installation and Administration Guide > Installing and Configuring Siebel Analytics Applications on UNIX >  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 
Using the Teradata ODBC driver, create an ODBC connection for the Teradata database.
Set the following variables in the ODBC.INI file:
DateFormat=AAA SessionMode=ANSI NoScan=Yes For Unicode environments, add the following: CharacterSet=UTF8 |