Basic Foreign Table View | Native Object Store | Teradata VantageCloud Lake - Create a Basic View - Teradata VantageCloud Lake

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Deployment
VantageCloud
Edition
Lake
Product
Teradata VantageCloud Lake
Release Number
Published
February 2025
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Creating a view allows you to:
  • CAST the payload fields to an appropriate data type.
  • Rename the header fields using case insensitive naming. Although the example shows the headers in mixed case, you can use whatever case you want in queries.

The examples use a sample river flow data set. To use your own data, replace the table and column names, and authorization object. See Variable Substitutions for Examples for the credentials and location values for the sample data set.

  1. To run NOS-related commands, log on to the database as a user with the required privileges.
  2. If the foreign table that the new view is to represent does not exist, create it or ask your database administrator to create it. See Filter Using a Path Filter in the CREATE FOREIGN TABLE Definition.
  3. Create the view on the foreign table:
    CREATE VIEW view_name AS (
    SELECT
    columnX,
    columnY,
    columnZ,
    columnN
    FROM table_name );

Example: Creating a Basic View

Create the view of the foreign table.

If the foreign table that the new view is to represent does not exist, create it. See Filter Using a Path Filter in the CREATE FOREIGN TABLE Definition.

CREATE VIEW riverflowview AS (
SELECT
Flow,
GageHeight,
Precipitation,
Site_no
FROM riverflow_pathfilter );

Query the view:

SELECT TOP 2 * FROM riverflowview;

Your result is similar to the following:

Flow    GageHeight Precipitation  site_no 
------  ---------- -------------  -------------- 
17500   10.21      .00            09396100       
17700   10.25      .00            09396100

Columns with missing attributes return NULLs when the record does not contain the attribute.