Continuing SQL Requests and BTEQ | Basic Teradata Query - Continuing SQL - Basic Teradata Query

An SQL request is automatically continued from one line to the next unless the line ends in a semicolon.

However, the following conditions are excluded:

exec /* exec macro current; 
*/macro xyz;

create macro xyz as 
(select * from dbc.tables;  
);

create macro xyz as 
(select ‘abcd; 
efgh’;  
);

When an SQL request is continued from one line to the next, BTEQ translates the line-feed characters at the end of the multi-line SQL requests to carriage-return characters. However, in case of a line-feed appearing inside a quoted string in the request, the line-feed characters are retained as is.