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Addded documentation for Teradata DB (apache#5885)
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Documentation extension for PR5870
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livinm authored and mistercrunch committed Sep 13, 2018
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+---------------+-------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------+
| BigQuery | ``pip install pybigquery`` | ``bigquery://`` |
+---------------+-------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------+
| Teradata | ``pip install sqlalchemy-teradata`` | ``teradata://`` |
+---------------+-------------------------------------+-------------------------------------------------+

Note that many other database are supported, the main criteria being the
existence of a functional SqlAlchemy dialect and Python driver. Googling
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See `Snowflake SQLAlchemy <https://github.com/snowflakedb/snowflake-sqlalchemy>`_.

Teradata
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The connection string for Teradata looks like this ::

teradata://{user}:{password}@{host}

*Note*: Its required to have Teradata ODBC drivers installed and environment variables configured for proper work of sqlalchemy dialect. Teradata ODBC Drivers available here: https://downloads.teradata.com/download/connectivity/odbc-driver/linux

Required environment variables: ::

export ODBCINI=/.../teradata/client/ODBC_64/odbc.ini
export ODBCINST=/.../teradata/client/ODBC_64/odbcinst.ini

See `Teradata SQLAlchemy <https://github.com/Teradata/sqlalchemy-teradata>`_.

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