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About the Teradata Database catalog source

You can use the Teradata Database catalog source to extract metadata from a Teradata Database source system. You can also run profiles and configure other capabilities, such as data classification.
Teradata Database is a Relational Database Management System (RDBMS) solution for data warehousing applications.

Extracted metadata

You can extract specific metadata from Teradata Database source system with Teradata Database catalog source.
Metadata Command Center extracts the following objects from a Teradata Database source system:

Data profiling for Teradata Database objects

Configure data profiling to run profiles on the metadata extracted from a Teradata Database source system.
You can use the Teradata connector to establish a connection to Teradata Database for profiling data. You can view the profiling statistics in Data Governance and Catalog.
The data profiling task runs profiles on the following data types:
Note:
You can run data profiling tasks on metadata that you extract from any database regardless of the database name that you specified in the connection properties in Administrator.

Compatible connectors

Before you configure a Teradata Database catalog source, you must connect to the Teradata Database source system.
Use the Teradata connector to connect to the Teradata Database source system in Administrator.
For information about configuring a connection, see Connections in the Administrator help.