Session 7: ODBC Connectivity

Last Updated : 8 April 2003

Center of Excellence Data Warehousing Group

Objectives
Set up an ODBC connection to a relational database Import relational metadata Extract data from a relational table Load data into a relational table

Working with Relational Data

Extract, filter, transform data in relational source tables Load data into relational tables Connect through ODBCstage
Some native drivers are supported

Setting up an ODBC Connection

Data source name

Create Database file Select Database file

Importing ODBC Metadata

Tables in the database

Extracting Relational Data

ODBC source stage

Defining the ODBC Stage

Data source

Specifying the Table Format

Table

Selection Criteria

SQL SELECT

Optional condition

Optional clause

Loading Relational Data

Update action

Create the target table

Editing the DDL

Generated DDL

Validate job to run the CREATE

QUESTIONS ?