DAL: Teradata DB Support

I want to buy Teradata equipment, and I want an ad hoc query tool. Teradata offers something I haven't seen yet--EQT. Is there any relationship between that and the EQT for DAL (formerly CL/1)? Because we are interested in ClearAccess, when can we expect a DAL driver for the Teradata?
We don't know of EQT from Teradata (now NCR/Teradata Corp.). From what we understand, the datamodels provided by Teradata database machines, like DBC/1012 models 2 and 3, are relational, and they are SQL-based. So it is possible to write a Data Access Language adapter for it.

As of release 1.3 DAL for MVS servers (TSO and VTAM) also support Teradata access.

EQT (Executive Query Tool) is a query tool developed by Red Brick Systems. It provides point-and-click access to relational databases, regardless of the workstation platform, the database server, or the server hardware. It runs on Macintosh and DOS Windows. Future releases will run on the OS/2 Presentation Manager, and UNIX workstations. It can retrieve data from Teradata, Oracle, Ingres, Sybase, DB2, Informix, and Rdb databases.

EQT for CL/1 is an old name for an announced product called Claris Query Tool, which uses three mechanisms to access databases: Data Access Language (DAL from Network Innovations), DB Library (Sybase), and SQL-Net (Oracle). The Claris Query Tool will be shipped in 1991. For more information about Claris Query Tool, please contact Dennis Ryan, Product Manager at Claris.

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Published Date: Feb 18, 2012