Example: TRYCAST Conversion Failure - Teradata Vantage

Teradata® VantageCloud Lake

Deployment
VantageCloud
Edition
Lake
Product
Teradata Vantage
Published
January 2023
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An example of when the TRYCAST conversion fails:

SELECT TRYCAST('abc' AS DECIMAL(5,2));

Result:

 *** Query completed. One row found. One column returned.
 *** Total elapsed time was 1 second.

TRYCAST('abc')
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              ?