SET TRANSFORM GROUP FOR TYPE Examples | Teradata Database - Examples: Setting Transform Groups for UDTs - Teradata Database

SQL Data Definition Language Syntax and Examples
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This statement sets the JSON data type with the Latin character set to the TD_JSON_VARCHAR transform.

SET TRANSFORM GROUP FOR TYPE JSON CHARACTER SET LATIN TD_JSON_VARCHAR;

This statement sets the JSON data type with the BSON storage format to the TD_JSON_VARCHAR transform.

SET TRANSFORM GROUP FOR TYPE JSON STORAGE FORMAT BSON TD_JSON_VARCHAR;

This statement sets the ST_GEOMETRY data type to the TD_GEO_VARCHAR transform. 

SET TRANSFORM GROUP FOR TYPE ST_GEOMETRY TD_GEO_VARCHAR;

The following statement uses the TD_JSON_VARCHAR transform for column c1, which is BSON data type, and uses the TD_GEO_VARCHAR transform for column c2.

SELECT NEW JSON('{}', BSON) AS c1, NEW ST_GEOMETRY('POINT(1 1)') AS c2;