Implicit Numeric-to-UDT Conversion - Advanced SQL Engine - Teradata Database

SQL Data Types and Literals

Product
Advanced SQL Engine
Teradata Database
Release Number
17.05
17.00
Published
June 2020
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2021-01-22
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Product Category
Teradata Vantage™
Teradata Database performs implicit Numeric-to-UDT conversions for the following operations:
  • UPDATE
  • INSERT
  • Passing arguments to stored procedures, external stored procedures, UDFs, and UDMs
  • Specific system operators and functions identified in other sections of this document, unless the DisableUDTImplCastForSysFuncOp field of the DBS Control Record is set to TRUE

Performing an implicit data type conversion requires that an appropriate cast definition (see Usage Notes) exists that specifies the AS ASSIGNMENT clause.

The source numeric type of the cast definition does not have to be an exact match to the source numeric type of the implicit conversion. Teradata Database can use an implicit cast definition that specifies a BYTEINT, SMALLINT, INTEGER, BIGINT, DECIMAL/NUMERIC, NUMBER, or REAL/FLOAT/DOUBLE target type.

If multiple implicit cast definitions exist for converting different numeric types to the UDT, Teradata Database uses the implicit cast definition for the numeric type with the highest precedence. The following list shows the precedence of numeric types in order from lowest to highest precedence:
  • BYTEINT
  • SMALLINT
  • INTEGER
  • BIGINT
  • DECIMAL/NUMERIC
  • NUMBER
  • REAL/FLOAT/DOUBLE

If no numeric-to-UDT implicit cast definitions exist, Teradata Database looks for other cast definitions that can substitute.

IF the following combination of implicit cast definitions exists … THEN Teradata Database …
DATE-to-UDT Character-to-UDT  
X   uses the DATE-to-UDT implicit cast definition.
  X uses the character-to-UDT implicit cast definition.

The character type cannot be CLOB.

If multiple character-to-UDT implicit cast definitions exist, then Teradata Database returns an SQL error.

X X reports an error.

Substitutions are valid because Teradata Database can implicitly cast a numeric type to the substitute data type, and then use the implicit cast definition to cast from the substitute data type to the UDT.