This section provides information to help applications programmers to design and script Teradata TPump jobs. Additional information needed by programmers and/or system administrators includes space requirements, locks, and the use of fallback or nonfallback tables.
The information in this section includes Teradata TPump command conventions, variables, and ANSI/SQL DateTime Data types. Information related to using comments, specifying a character set, using graphic data types, and using graphic constants is found in this section. Restrictions and limitations, as well as termination return codes, are covered as well.