CREATE TABLE Usage (Alias Table Form) - Teradata Vantage

Teradata® VantageCloud Lake

Deployment
VantageCloud
Edition
Lake
Product
Teradata Vantage
Published
January 2023
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  • An alias table has Apache Iceberg format.
  • By default, an alias table is created with NO PRIMARY INDEX.
  • You cannot create an index for an alias table.
  • You cannot use an alias table in an ALTER TABLE statement.
  • HELP TABLE output is the same for a Datalake table specified as an alias table and the same table specified with dot notation.
  • SHOW TABLE output for an alias table is the CREATE TABLE syntax used to create the alias table.
  • An alias table has an entry in the table DBC.TVM, but no schema definition in the table DBC.TVFields or any other dictionary table.