Installation

Installation instructions for the Teradata dialect

The Teradata dialect currently uses the tdodbc DBAPI implementation which needs Teradata ODBC. The following instructions should get you up and running using this DBAPI + Dialect combination.

Mac

Instructions for installation are also outlined in [this tutorial] (https://developer.teradata.com/tools/articles/teradata-sqlalchemy-introduction). For installation on a Mac you will need:

• Some kind of ODBC manager (such as iODBC)
• TeradataODBC. The driver is available for Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows
• Python 2.7/3.5+ (recommend Anaconda)
• the Teradata dialect! pip install sqlalchemy-teradata