CAST DATE-to-Numeric Conversion | VantageCloud Lake - DATE-to-Numeric Conversion with CAST - Teradata VantageCloud Lake

Lake - Working with SQL

Deployment
VantageCloud
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Lake
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Teradata VantageCloud Lake
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Published
February 2025
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ANSI Compliance

This statement is ANSI SQL:2011 compliant.

As an extension to ANSI, CAST permits the use of numeric data attribute phrases.

Syntax

CAST (
  date_expression AS numeric_data_type
  [ data_attribute [...] ]
)

Syntax Elements

date_expression

A date expression to be converted.

numeric_data_type

The data type to which the expression is to be converted.

data_attribute
One of the following data attributes:
  • FORMAT
  • NAMED
  • TITLE