Example: Compressing the TIMESTAMP Data Type - Teradata VantageCloud Lake

Lake - Working with SQL

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VantageCloud
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Lake
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Teradata VantageCloud Lake
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February 2025
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The following SQL statement creates a TIMESTAMP column in t_timestamp that may be stored in compressed form:

CREATE TABLE table t_timestamp(i int, j timestamp(0) compress using td_sysfnlib.ts_compress decompress using td_sysfnlib.ts_decompress);