Restrictions on Join Index ORDER BY Clauses - Teradata VantageCloud Lake

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VantageCloud
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February 2025
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The following restrictions apply to ORDER BY clauses specified in a join index definition:
  • Sort order is restricted to ASC.

    DESC is not valid.

  • Aggregate columns and expressions are not permitted as a column_name or column_position specification.
  • Supported data types for column_name are restricted to the following:
    • DATE
    • BYTEINT
    • DECIMAL (only for columns of four or fewer bytes)
    • INTEGER
    • SMALLINT