Teradata Conversion Settings

General Conversion Settings

General Conversion Settings page

1. Comment objects with missing dependencies: Flag to indicate if the user wants to comment on nodes that have missing dependencies.

2. Disable EWI comments generation (errors, warnings and issues): Flag to indicate whether EWIs comments (Errors, Warnings, and Issues) will not be generated on the converted code. The default is false

3. Generate XML-tags for SQL statements in Stored Procedures: Flag to indicate whether the SQL statements SELECT, INSERT, CREATE, DELETE, UPDATE, DROP, MERGE in Stored Procedures will be tagged on the converted code. This feature is used for easy statement identification on the migrated code. Wrapping these statements within these XML-like tags allows for other programs to quickly find and extract them. The decorated code looks like this:

   //<SQL_DELETE
   EXEC(DELETE FROM SB_EDP_SANDBOX_LAB.PUBLIC.USER_LIST,[])
   //SQL_DELETE!>

4. Separate Period Data-type definitions and usages into begin and end Data-Time fields: This flag is used to indicate that the tool should migrate any use of the PERIOD datatype as two separate DATETIME fields that will hold the original period begin and end values, anytime a period field or function is migrated using this flag SSC-EWI-TD0053 will be added to warn about this change.

   Input Code:

   IN -> Teradata_01.sql

   CREATE TABLE myTable(
      col1 PERIOD(DATE),
      col2 VARCHAR(50),
      col3 PERIOD(TIMESTAMP)
   );

   Output Code:

   OUT -> Teradata_01.sql

   CREATE OR REPLACE TABLE myTable (
      col1 VARCHAR(24) !!!RESOLVE EWI!!! /*** SSC-EWI-TD0053 - SNOWFLAKE DOES NOT SUPPORT THE PERIOD DATATYPE, ALL PERIODS ARE HANDLED AS VARCHAR INSTEAD ***/!!!,
      col2 VARCHAR(50),
      col3 VARCHAR(58) !!!RESOLVE EWI!!! /*** SSC-EWI-TD0053 - SNOWFLAKE DOES NOT SUPPORT THE PERIOD DATATYPE, ALL PERIODS ARE HANDLED AS VARCHAR INSTEAD ***/!!!
   )
   COMMENT = '{"origin":"sf_sc","name":"snowconvert","version":{"major":1, "minor":0},{"attributes":{"component":"teradata"}}'
   ;

5. Set encoding of the input files: The encoding code page number is used for parsing the source files. We only accept encodings supported by .NET Core. Here are the ones supported at the moment:

Code Page	Name	Display Name
1200	utf-16	Unicode
1201D	unicodeFFFE	Unicode (Big endian)
12000	utf-32	Unicode (UTF-32)
12001	utf-32BE	Unicode (UTF-32 Big endian)
20127	us-ascii	US-ASCII
28591	iso-8859-1	Western European (ISO)
65000	utf-7	Unicode (UTF-7). Not available in .NET 5
65001	utf-8	Unicode (UTF-8). Default encoding

To review the Settings that apply to all supported languages, go to the following article.

DB Objects Names Settings

DB Objects Names Settings page

1. Schema: The string value specifies the custom schema name to apply. If not specified, the original database name will be used. Example: DB1.myCustomSchema.Table1.

2. Database: The string value specifies the custom database name to apply. Example: MyCustomDB.PUBLIC.Table1.

3. Default: None of the above settings will be used in the object names.

Prepare Code Settings

Prepare Code Settings page

1. Prepare my code: Flag to indicate whether the input code should be processed before parsing and transformation.

Format Conversion Settings

Format Conversion Settings page

1. Character to Number default scale: An integer value for the CHARACTER to Approximate Number transformation (Default: 10).

2. Default TIMESTAMP format: String value for the TIMESTAMP format (Default: "YYYY/MM/DD HH:MI:SS").

3. Default DATE format: String value for the DATE format (Default: "YYYY/MM/DD").

4. Source TIMEZONE: String value for the TIMEZONE format (Default: "GMT-5").

5. Default TIME format: String value for the TIME format (Default: "HH:MI:SS").

Target Language for BTEQ, Procedures/Macros

BTEQ Target Language Settings page

Specifies the target language to convert Bteq and Mload script files. Currently supported values are SnowScript and Python. The default value is set to Python.

Procedures/Macros Target Language Settings page

String value specifying the target language to convert Stored procedures and Macros. Currently supported are: SnowScript and JavaScript. The default value is set to SnowScript.

Reset Settings: The reset settings option appears on every page. If you've made changes, you can reset SnowConvert to its original default settings.