Example: HELP COLUMN on a Mixture of Non-Column Expressions and table_name .* Expressions - Teradata VantageCloud Lake

Lake - Working with SQL

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The following request runs HELP COLUMN on an integer expression and all columns of the d table. The report does not report a column name for the integer expression.

     HELP COLUMN 1+1, d.*;
      *** Help information returned. 5 rows.
      *** Total elapsed time was 1 second.
     Column Name                Type Nullable Format
     -------------------------- ---- -------- ----------------------
                                I    Y        -(10)9
     transaction_header_key     I    Y        -(10)9
     vendor_key                 I    Y        -(10)9
     item_key                   I    Y        -(10)9
     stuff                      CF   Y        X(300)