Examples: Table-Level Alterations - Teradata Vantage

Teradata® VantageCloud Lake

Deployment
VantageCloud
Edition
Lake
Product
Teradata Vantage
Published
January 2023
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Example: Update Map

ALTER FOREIGN TABLE ParquetTab1, MAP = TD_MAP2;

Example: Update Simplified Authorization

ALTER FOREIGN TABLE ParquetTab1, EXTERNAL SECURITY s3_auth1;

Example: Update Legacy Authorization

ALTER FOREIGN TABLE ParquetTab1, EXTERNAL SECURITY DEFINER TRUSTED TDAWSEDBS_AUTH2;

Example: Update FALLBACK Attribute and Authorization

ALTER FOREIGN TABLE JSONTab1, FALLBACK,
EXTERNAL SECURITY DEFINER TRUSTED TDAWSEDBS_AUTH2;

Example: Update LOCATION

ALTER FOREIGN TABLE ParquetTab1
UPDATE
LOCATION ('/s3/td-usgs-public.s3.amazonaws.com/PARQUETDATA/09394500');

Example: Update PATHPATTERN and ROWFORMAT

ALTER FOREIGN TABLE CSVTab1
UPDATE
PATHPATTERN ('$year/$month/$day')
ROWFORMAT ('{"record_delimiter":"\n","character_set":"UTF8"}')
;

Example: Alter Both Column-Level and Table-Level Attributes

DROP is a column-level alteration; UPDATE is a table-level alteration.

ALTER FOREIGN TABLE ParquetTab1
DROP Precipitation
UPDATE LOCATION  ('/s3/td-usgs-public.s3.amazonaws.com/PARQUETDATA/09394500')
       PATHPATTERN  ('$Var1/$Var2/$var3');

Example: Alter PARTITION BY Clause

ALTER FOREIGN TABLE CRIMEDATA
  MODIFY PARTITION BY (
    COLUMN, CITY VARCHAR(3), ARREST_YEAR INT, ARREST_MONTH VARCHAR(10)
  );