Argument Types and Rules - Advanced SQL Engine - Teradata Database

SQL Functions, Expressions, and Predicates

Product
Advanced SQL Engine
Teradata Database
Release Number
17.10
Published
July 2021
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2021-07-28
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Product Category
Teradata Vantage™

Arguments that are not FLOAT are converted to FLOAT based on implicit type conversion rules. See Teradata Vantage™ - Data Types and Literals, B035-1143. If an argument cannot be converted, an error is reported.

If an argument is a UDT, the following rules apply:
  • The UDT must have an implicit cast to any of the following predefined types:
    • Numeric
    • Character
    • DATE

      To define an implicit cast for a UDT, use the CREATE CAST statement and specify the AS ASSIGNMENT clause. See Teradata Vantage™ - SQL Data Definition Language Syntax and Examples, B035-1144.

  • Implicit type conversion of UDTs for system operators and functions, including trigonometric and inverse trigonometric functions, is a Teradata extension to the ANSI SQL standard. To disable this extension, set the DisableUDTImplCastForSysFuncOp field of the DBS Control Record to TRUE. For details, see Teradata Vantage™ - Database Utilities , B035-1102 .
Trigonometric and inverse trigonometric functions cannot take the following types of arguments:
  • BYTE or VARBYTE
  • BLOB or CLOB
  • CHARACTER or VARCHAR if the server character set is GRAPHIC