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

SQL Data Definition Language Syntax and Examples

Deployment
VantageCloud
VantageCore
Edition
VMware
Enterprise
IntelliFlex
Product
Analytics Database
Teradata Vantage
Release Number
17.20
Published
June 2022
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2025-11-06
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Product Category
Teradata Vantage™

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;