ALTER TYPE Examples | Teradata Database - Example: Using the ALTER TYPE Statement with the COMPILE Option - Teradata Database

SQL Data Definition Language Syntax and Examples

Deployment
VantageCloud
VantageCore
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VMware
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IntelliFlex
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Teradata Database
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20.00
Published
June 2025
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The following example recompiles the UDT named address, generates the appropriate object code, generates the new .so library, and redistributes the file to all system nodes.

     ALTER TYPE address COMPILE;

The following example recompiles the one-dimensional ARRAY phonenumbers_ary, generates the appropriate object code, generates the new .so library, and redistributes the file to all system nodes.

     ALTER TYPE phonenumbers_ary COMPILE;