16.20 - Example: Limiting Returned Characters - 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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Suppose nameaddress is a VARCHAR(120) field, and the application used positions 1 to 30 for name, starting address at position 31. To return address only, but limit the number of characters returned to 50 use:

   ...
   SUBSTRING (nameaddress FROM 31 FOR 50)

This returns an address of up to 50 characters.