What version of a driver works with a specific release of the Teradata database?

A Teradata Database UDF is a program that operates on data stored in relational tables. UDFs allow users to add their own extensions to the Teradata SQL language. A UDF is referred to as a routine in the SQL-99 standard. In the SQL-99 standard a routine can be a function, method, or a procedure. In addition routines can be classified as internal, written in SQL, or external written in another language such as C, C++ or JAVA. The Teradata Warehouse 7.1 UDF feature provides the C language external routine "function" as defined by the SQL-99 standard. When a UDF is created it becomes part of the Teradata SQL language and is accessible to everyone who has the appropriate access rights. A UDF can operate on any supported Teradata Database data type and return a value of any supported Teradata Database data type, which allows UDFs to participate in SQL expressions and be utilized, for the most part, wherever Teradata's built-in functions are used.

Teradata certifies a driver with the current version of the Teradata database and up to two prior releases of Teradata. For example, a driver from the TTU 7.1 product set is certified and supported with V2R5.1, V2R5.0, and V2R4.1.x. On the download "results" page, each driver listed also indicates the versions of the Teradata database that it is compatible with.

In general, we attempt to certify the current release of an operating system - IBM AIX, for example - and the prior releases. For example, for IBM AIX, we have certified our TTU 7.1 ODBC and JDBC drivers on IBM AIX 5.2 and AIX 5.2. View the Supportability Chart for easy reference.

No, we do not certify or support this configuration.

In general the files that are downloaded are single files containing the required files to install the driver. For Windows, both WIN32 and WIN64 are contained in a single self extracting installation package. The UNIX platforms SPARC, AIX, HPUX, and MPRAS are all packaged up into a single TAR file. For Linux, there is a single RPM. For JDBC in the TTU 8.0 release, the JDBC driver will be delivered as a single jar file named "terajdbc4.jar," which is a single zero-install jar file, not an executable. Prior to downloading, each download provides installation instructions on the download page.

http://www.info.teradata.com/datawarehouse/eTeradata-BrowseBy.cfm?page=Teradata%20Tools%20and%20Utilities

We list our JDBC 2.0 compliance in the customer documentation (www.info.teradata.com):

Teradata Driver for the JDBC Interface User Guide

Acrobat PDF

B035-2403-093A

Teradata Tools and Utilities 7.1.0, Release 03.01.00

Dec 08, 2003

In Appendix B, JDBC Methods, Supported Methods, which actually lists all the methods and whether they are supported or not.