I'll preface my comments by admitting that I know nothing about Teradata DBs in particular... but why not do it the perly way and use Perl's database independent module (DBI) with an appropriate driver? Here's a links to the DBD::Teradata driver homepage:
<span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.presicient.com/tdatdbd/">http://www.presicient.com/tdatdbd/</a></span> And here's a link to the module doumentation on CPAN: <span style="color: rgb(51, 51, 255); text-decoration: underline;">
<a href="http://search.cpan.org/~darnold/DBD-Teradata-1.20/Teradata.pm">http://search.cpan.org/~darnold/DBD-Teradata-1.20/Teradata.pm</a></span><br><br><p>"The DBI is the standard database interface module for Perl. It defines
a set of methods, variables and conventions that provide a consistent
database interface independent of the actual database being used."</p>
<p align="center">-- Tim Bunce</p><br>More information on DBI, or to join a mail-list to discuss issues ( <a href="mailto:dbi-users@perl.org">dbi-users@perl.org</a> ), can be found here: <a href="http://dbi.perl.org/" class="podlinkurl">
http://dbi.perl.org</a><br><br><br>Good Luck!<br>mc<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 10/12/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Martie Knauss</b> <<a href="mailto:mdknauss@yahoo.com">mdknauss@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:
</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">All,<br>I'm new to dbase connections and need a little help.<br>I'm wondering if anyone has had any success connecting
<br>to a Teradata dbase on a LINUX (uname -a Linux<br><a href="http://any.old.net">any.old.net</a> 2.6.15-1.2054_FC5smp #1 SMP Tue Mar 14<br>16:05:46 EST 2006 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux). I've<br>used cpan to pull down ODBC::Teradata and install
<br>without issue. However, when I try to connect the<br>script dies with no error message. I've been working<br>on this for a couple of days and have tried several<br>things (even reading the README, carefully!). I'd be
<br>glad to share my experiences so far but, even happier<br>to find a solution. Thanks in advance.<br><br>Martie<br><br>__________________________________________________<br>Do You Yahoo!?<br>Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around
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