Implicit Type Conversion - Advanced SQL Engine - Teradata Database

SQL Data Types and Literals

Product
Advanced SQL Engine
Teradata Database
Release Number
17.10
Published
July 2021
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2021-07-27
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Product Category
Teradata Vantageā„¢
SQL Engine performs implicit UDT-to-TIME conversions for the following operations:
  • UPDATE
  • INSERT
  • Passing arguments to stored procedures, external stored procedures, UDFs, and UDMs
  • Specific system operators and functions identified in other sections of this document, unless the DisableUDTImplCastForSysFuncOp field of the DBS Control Record is set to TRUE

Performing an implicit data type conversion requires that an appropriate cast definition (see Usage Notes) exists that specifies the AS ASSIGNMENT clause.

If no UDT-to-TIME implicit cast definition exists, Vantage looks for a UDT-to-CHAR or UDT-to-VARCHAR cast definition that can substitute for the UDT-to-TIME implicit cast definition. Substitutions are valid because Vantage can use the implicit cast definition to cast the UDT to a character data type, and then implicitly cast the character data type to a DATE type. If multiple UDT-to-character implicit cast definitions exist, then SQL Engine returns an SQL error.