This statement is only supported on the Block File System on the primary cluster. It is not available for the Object File System.
Returns a fixed character string to the requestor.
ANSI Compliance
ECHO is a Teradata extension to the ANSI SQL:2011 standard.
Required Privileges
None.
ECHO Not Supported for Embedded SQL
The Teradata preprocessor does not support ECHO.
ECHO Not Supported for SQL Procedures
SQL procedures do not support ECHO.
How ECHO Works
The system sends an ECHO parcel containing string to the client system to be interpreted.
ECHO and BTEQ
ECHO is used most frequently in macros to perform BTEQ commands during macro execution.
ECHO cannot be used with the following BTEQ commands.
- =
- EXPORT
- IMPORT
- LOGOFF
- LOGON
- QUIT
- REPEAT
- RUN
If command is not a BTEQ format command, BTEQ logs the illegal command as an error.