To establish native connectivity between an application service and a database, install the database client software for the database that you want to access.
Native drivers are packaged with the database server and client software. Configure connectivity on the machines that need to access the databases. To ensure compatibility between the application service and the database, install a client software that is compatible with the database version and use the appropriate database client libraries.
The Test Data Manager Service uses native connectivity to connect to the following databases:
Source and target databases. Reads data from source databases and writes data to target databases.
Profiling source databases. Reads from relational source databases to run profiles against the sources.
Dictionary connections. Reads from dictionary connections and writes to target databases.