For more information, see:
- For more information about the COMPRESS/DECOMPRESS phrase, see Teradata Vantage™ - Data Types and Literals, B035-1143.
- For more information about ALC, see "COMPRESS/DECOMPRESS Phrases" in Teradata Vantage™ - Data Types and Literals, B035-1143.
- For details about UDF implicit type conversion rules, see “Compatible Types” in Teradata Vantage™ - SQL External Routine Programming, B035-1147.
- For more information about the Lempel-Ziv algorithm, see http://zlib.net.
- For more information about the DECAMSET function, see DECAMSET.
- For a detailed comparison between the Teradata-supplied compression functions and guidelines for choosing a compression function, see Teradata Vantage™ - Database Design, B035-1094.
- To uncompress data that was compressed using TD_LZ_COMPRESS, use TD_LZ_DECOMPRESS.