16.20 - SUBBITSTR - Advanced SQL Engine - Teradata Database

Teradata Vantage™ - SQL Functions, Expressions, and Predicates

Product
Advanced SQL Engine
Teradata Database
Release Number
16.20
Published
March 2019
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2020-03-25
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Purpose

Extracts a bit substring from the target_arg input expression based on the specified bit position.

Syntax



TD_SYSFNLIB.
Name of the database where the function is located.
target_arg
A numeric or variable byte expression.
position_arg
An integer expression indicating the starting position of the bit substring to be extracted.
num_bits_arg
An integer expression indicating the length of the bit substring to be extracted. This specifies the number of bits for the function to return.