ABS Argument Types and Rules - Teradata Vantage

Teradata® VantageCloud Lake
Deployment
VantageCloud
Edition
Lake
Product
Teradata Vantage
Published
January 2023
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A nonnumeric argument is converted to a numeric value based on implicit type conversion rules. If the argument cannot be converted, an error is reported. See Data Type Conversions.

A character string arg is converted to a numeric value of the FLOAT data type.

ABS cannot be applied to the following types of arguments:
  • BYTE or VARBYTE
  • BLOB or CLOB
  • CHARACTER or VARCHAR if the server character set is GRAPHIC