Usage Notes - 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 Vantage™

Internal Representation of TIME WITH TIME ZONE

Conceptually, TIME WITH TIME ZONE is treated as a record composed of five numeric fields.

Field Name Minimum Value Maximum Value Storage Format
HOUR 00 23 BYTEINT
MINUTE 00 59 BYTEINT
SECOND 00.000000 61.999999

This value accounts for leap seconds that can be added to the clock.

DECIMAL(8,6)
TIMEZONE_HOUR -12.59 +14.00 BYTEINT
TIMEZONE_MINUTE BYTEINT

Although the record is composed of numeric fields, it is not treated as a numeric value.

The length of the internal stored form is eight bytes.

External Representation of TIME WITH TIME ZONE

TIME WITH TIME ZONE types are imported and exported in record and indicator modes as CHARACTER data using the ANSI format string and the site-defined client character set.

WHEN fractional_seconds_precision is … THEN the type is … AND the format is …
0 CHAR(14) 'hh:mi:ss-hh:mi'

or

'hh:mi:ss+hh:mi'

n

where n is 1 - 6

CHAR(15+n) 'hh:mi:ss.ss…-hh:mi'

or

'hh:mi:ss.ss…+hh:mi'

The following table shows examples of how TIME WITH TIME ZONE types are exported in record and indicator modes.

WHEN fractional_seconds_precision is … THEN length is … FOR example …
6 21 '11:37:58.123456+08:00'
0 14 '11:37:58-08:00'

TIME WITH TIME ZONE Format

For information about the TIME WITH TIME ZONE format and how to change it, see TIME and TIMESTAMP Formats.

Implicit and Explicit TIME WITH TIME ZONE Conversion

Vantage performs implicit conversion from CHARACTER to TIME WITH TIME ZONE types during assignment and comparison. This conversion is supported for CHAR and VARCHAR types only. You cannot convert a character data type of CLOB or CHAR/VARCHAR CHARACTER SET GRAPHIC to TIME WITH TIME ZONE.

Vantage also performs implicit conversion from TIME WITH TIME ZONE to TIMESTAMP types in some cases. However, implicit TIME WITH TIMEZONE to TIMESTAMP conversion is not supported for comparisons.

You can use CAST to explicitly convert CHARACTER to TIME WITH TIME ZONE types or from TIME WITH TIME ZONE to TIMESTAMP types.

For more information, see Teradata Vantage™ - SQL Functions, Expressions, and Predicates, B035-1145.