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Define Teradata Database Roles

You can use the Teradata Database Role editor to create or edit a role that is used for managing user access permissions on database objects in a Teradata physical model.

To define a Teradata database role

1. Click Target-Teradata, Database Roles on the Model menu.

   The Teradata Database Role Editor opens.

2. Select a database role name and work with the following options:

   Note: Click New on the toolbar to create a new database role. Use the Enter filter text text box to filter a very large list of roles to quickly locate the one you want to work with.

   Name

   Specifies the name of the database role.

   Is External

   Specifies whether the role is an internal role or an external role.

   Generate

   Generates DDL for this object during Forward Engineering.

   You must define multiple roles to associate roles with other roles. After you define multiple roles, you can associate a role name with a role name on the Roles tab.

3. Click the Roles tab and select the check box next to the role name. Optionally, select the check box to indicate the With Admin Option.
4. (Optional) Click the Comment tab and enter any comments that you want to associate with the object.
5. (Optional) Click the UDP tab to work with user-defined properties for the object.
6. (Optional) Click the Notes tab to view and edit user notes.
7. Click Close.

   The Teradata Database Role Editor closes.