Teradata Setup on Mac
This tutorial will specially cover how to setup Teradata Express(DB) on Mac OS. Similarly setup on windows can be done.
Two software need to be downloaded for running Teradata on Mac OS.
- Login to Teradata download website and click here to download TD 16.20 or users can download required version at this page. Users can register on Teradata website at this page.
- Download VMware Fusion Player for personal use at this page by registering on the VMware site.
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Starting the setup after downloading required files.
- Adding Teradata to the VMware Fusion Player
- Open the VMware Player.
- Click Open a Virtual Machine.
- Navigate to the folder where extracted Teradata Virtual image was kept.
- Select the .vmx file and click OK.
- Starting Teradata Virtual Machine
- Select 'TDExpress16.20_Sles11' (or other version) from left sidebar under Virtual Machines in VMware Player.
- Machine will start up after brief processing and it will ask for username & password.
- Login: root
- Password: root
- Once login is successful, desktop window will be visible in WMware Player
- Step 1 & Step 2 have been visualized in the below video
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Initiating database and login to Teradata database user.
- Click 'Start Teradata' on the desktop of virtual machine(above step 3) started.
- Open Gnome Terminal from desktop or from the Application folder.
- Type bteq and enter
- Now login with dbc user(admin) using below command, initial password of dbc user is also dbc.
.logon localhost/dbc
- Username: dbc
- Password: dbc
- Above process has been visualized in the below video
- dbc user is parent of all users created in Teradata and it can be used to setup required databases and users. This page explains how to setup users & databases.