TO_TIMESTAMP Syntax - Teradata Vantage

Teradata® VantageCloud Lake

Deployment
VantageCloud
Edition
Lake
Product
Teradata Vantage
Published
January 2023
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2024-04-03
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Syntax

[TD_SYSFNLIB.] TO_TIMESTAMP ( { string_expr, format_arg | integer } )

Syntax Elements

TD_SYSFNLIB.
Name of the database where the function is located.
string_expr

A character argument.

If the conversion fails, TO_TIMESTAMP returns an error.

format_arg

A character expression.

format_arg is a data format specifying the format of string_expr.

For valid format_arg values, see TO_DATE.

Any fractional seconds that are specified beyond 6 digits are truncated.

If format_arg is omitted, TO_TIMESTAMP uses a default timestamp format of YYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS.FF6.

If this syntax element is NULL, NULL is returned.

If this syntax element is not valid, an error is returned.

integer_expr

a number argument.

POSIX epoch conversion is implicit in the TO_TIMESTAMP function when integer_expr is passed to the function.

POSIX epoch is the number of seconds that have elapsed since midnight Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) of January 1, 1970.