Teradata Execute Action

The Teradata Execute action plugin is available in the Hub.

Action that runs a Teradata command.

Used this action when you want to run a Teradata command before or after a data pipeline. For example, you might want to run an SQL update command on a database before the pipeline source pulls data from tables.

Configuration

Property	Macro Enabled?	Description

Property	Macro Enabled?	Description
Driver Name	No	Required. Name of the JDBC driver to use. Default is teradata.
Host	Yes	Required. Database command to execute. Default is localhost.
Port	Yes	Required. Host that Teradata is running on. Default is 1025.
Database	Yes	Required. Port that Teradata is running on.
Database Command	Yes	Required. Teradata database name.
Username	Yes	Optional. User identity for connecting to the specified database.
Password	Yes	Optional. Password to use to connect to the specified database.
Connection Arguments	Yes	Optional. A list of arbitrary string key/value pairs as connection arguments. These arguments will be passed to the JDBC driver as connection arguments for JDBC drivers that may need additional configurations.

Example

Suppose you want to execute a query against a Teradata database named “prod” that is running on “localhost” port 1025 (Ensure that the driver for Teradata is installed. You can also provide driver name for some specific driver, otherwise “teradata” will be used), and then configure the plugin with:

Property	Value

Property	Value
Driver Name	`teradata`
Database Command	`UPDATE table_name SET price = 20 WHERE ID = 6`
Host	`localhost`
Port	`1025`
Database	`prod`
Username	`dbc`
Password	`dbc`