FOR Syntax Elements - Teradata Vantage - Analytics Database
SQL Stored Procedures and Embedded SQL
- Deployment
- VantageCloud
- VantageCore
- Edition
- VMware
- Enterprise
- IntelliFlex
- Product
- Analytics Database
- Teradata Vantage
- Release Number
- 17.20
- Published
- June 2022
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- en-US
- ft:lastEdition
- 2023-10-30
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- lifecycle
- latest
- Product Category
- Teradata Vantage™
- IF_statement
- See IF.
- CASE_statement
- See CASE.
- label_name
- An optional label for the FOR statement.
- If an ending-label is specified, you must specify a beginning-label that is equivalent to the ending-label. The beginning-label must be terminated by a colon character (:).
- The label name of the BEGIN END compound statement cannot be reused in an iteration statement. One label name cannot be reused within one group of nested FOR statements, but can be reused for different non-nesting iteration statements.
- for_loop_variable
- The name of the loop.
- cursor_name
- The name of the cursor.
- Used for updatable cursors as the object of the WHERE CURRENT OF clause.
- cursor_specification
- A single SELECT statement used as the cursor.
- In read-only cursors, the single SELECT statement can contain one SELECT or multiple SELECTs that use set operators like UNION, INTERSECT or MINUS.
- Updatable cursors do not support the set operators.
- statement
- One or more DML, DDL, DCL statements, including dynamic SQL statements, or control statements, including BEGIN END compound statements.