Use CAST syntax or Teradata explicit conversion syntax to convert an INTERVAL type to its canonical character string representation.
INTERVAL-to-Character conversion is supported for CHAR and VARCHAR types only. The target type cannot be CLOB.
CAST Syntax
CAST ( interval_expression AS character_data_type [ CHARACTER SET server_character_set ] [ data_attribute [...] ] )
- interval_expression
-
An INTERVAL expression to be converted.
- character_data_type
-
The data type to which the expression is to be converted.
- server_character_set
-
The server character set to use for the conversion. If the CHARACTER SET clause is omitted, the user default server character set is used.
- data_attribute
- One of the following data attributes:
- FORMAT
- NAMED
- TITLE