Pack Function Example | Teradata Vantage - Example: Nondefault Options - Teradata VantageCloud Lake

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Deployment
VantageCloud
Edition
Lake
Product
Teradata VantageCloud Lake
Release Number
Published
February 2025
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ft:lastEdition
2026-02-20
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This example specifies the pipe character (|) for Delimiter and 'false' for IncludeColumnName.

Pack with Nondefault Options SQL Call

SELECT * FROM Pack (
  ON ville_temperature
  USING
  Delimiter ('|')
  OutputColumn ('packed_data')
  IncludeColumnName ('false')
  TargetColumns ('city', 'state', 'period', 'temp_f')
) AS dt ORDER BY 2;

Pack with Nondefault Options Output

Virtual columns are separated by pipe characters and not labeled with their column names.

packed_data sn
Nashville|Tennessee|2022-01-01 00:00:00|35.1 1
Nashville|Tennessee|2022-01-01 01:00:00|36.2 2
Nashville|Tennessee|2022-01-01 02:00:00|34.5 3
Nashville|Tennessee|2022-01-01 03:00:00|33.6 4
Nashville|Tennessee|2022-01-01 04:00:00|33.1 5
Knoxville|Tennessee|2022-01-01 03:00:00|33.2 6
Knoxville|Tennessee|2022-01-01 04:00:00|32.8 7
Knoxville|Tennessee|2022-01-01 05:00:00|32.4 8
Knoxville|Tennessee|2022-01-01 06:00:00|32.2 9
Knoxville|Tennessee|2022-01-01 07:00:00|32.4 10