Setup SQL Server 2008 R2 Linked Server To the Teradata Database - comment by murphrp

@jbmarshalliii: Out of curiosity, how does this help you?

We would like to build a spreadsheet- or datasheet-like interface to capture data that is not already stored conveniently in an operational system. Generally, these data sources are on user desktops in Excel. We looked to Sharepoint (instead of Excel-only) to add some governance and sharing features, but we have not found the right solution to meet all our needs yet. Sharepoint can help us write directly to Teradata, but only with a form, not a datasheet interface. If you want the datasheet look and feel with Sharepoint, you have to write the data to SQL Server first, then move it separately to Teradata.

I'm wondering if setting up a linked server will help us use the datasheet view in Sharepoint and write directly to Teradata.