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Native Connectivity

To establish native connectivity between an application service and a database, you must install the database client software on the machine where the service runs.
The following table describes the syntax for the native connection string for each supported database system:
Database
Connect String Syntax
Example
IBM DB2
dbname
mydatabase
Microsoft SQL Server
servername@dbname
sqlserver@mydatabase
Oracle
dbname.world (same as TNSNAMES entry)
oracle.world
Sybase ASE
servername@dbname
sambrown@mydatabase
Teradata
ODBC_data_source_name or
ODBC_data_source_name@db_name or
ODBC_data_source_name@db_user_name
TeradataODBC
TeradataODBC@mydatabase
TeradataODBC@sambrown