Possible Predefined Type Source and Target User-Defined Cast Combinations - Advanced SQL Engine - Teradata Database

SQL Data Definition Language Detailed Topics

Product
Advanced SQL Engine
Teradata Database
Release Number
17.05
17.00
Published
June 2020
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2021-01-24
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Product Category
Teradata Vantage™

For user-defined casts, the system supports a degree of implicit predefined data type-to-predefined type conversions. The following table lists the inputs for a predefined data type-to-UDT cast and targets for a UDT-to-predefined data type cast.

Source Input Source Data Type of CAST Definition Target Data Type of CAST Definition Target Output
BYTEINT

SMALLINT

INTEGER

BIGINT

DECIMAL

NUMERIC

REAL

FLOAT

DOUBLE PRECISION

DATE

CHARACTER

VARCHAR

BYTEINT UDT UDT
SMALLINT
INTEGER
BIGINT
DECIMAL

NUMERIC

REAL

FLOAT

DOUBLE PRECISION

BYTE

VARBYTE

BLOB

BYTE
VARBYTE
BLOB
CHARACTER

VARCHAR

CLOB

BYTEINT

SMALLINT

INTEGER

BIGINT

DECIMAL

NUMERIC

REAL

FLOAT

DOUBLE PRECISION

DATE

CHARACTER UDT UDT
VARCHAR
CLOB
DATE

BYTEINT

SMALLINT

INTEGER

BIGINT

DECIMAL

NUMERIC

REAL

FLOAT

DOUBLE PRECISION

DATE

DATE
TIME

TIME WITH TIME ZONE

CHARACTER

VARCHAR

TIME
TIME WITH TIME ZONE
TIMESTAMP

TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE

CHARACTER

VARCHAR

TIMESTAMP
TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE
INTERVAL YEAR

INTERVAL YEAR TO MONTH

INTERVAL MONTH

INTERVAL YEAR UDT UDT
INTERVAL YEAR TO MONTH
INTERVAL MONTH
INTERVAL DAY

INTERVAL DAY TO HOUR

INTERVAL DAY TO MINUTE

INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND

INTERVAL HOUR

INTERVAL HOUR TO MINUTE

INTERVAL HOUR TO SECOND

INTERVAL MINUTE

INTERVAL MINUTE TO SECOND

INTERVAL SECOND

INTERVAL DAY
INTERVAL DAY TO HOUR
INTERVAL DAY TO MINUTE
INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND
INTERVAL HOUR
INTERVAL HOUR TO MINUTE
INTERVAL HOUR TO SECOND
INTERVAL MINUTE
INTERVAL MINUTE TO SECOND
INTERVAL SECOND
UDT1 UDT1 UDT2 UDT2
UDT UDT BYTEINT BYTEINT

SMALLINT

INTEGER

BIGINT

DECIMAL

NUMERIC

REAL

FLOAT

DOUBLE PRECISION

CHARACTER

VARCHAR

DATE

SMALLINT
INTEGER
BIGINT
DECIMAL

NUMERIC

REAL

FLOAT

DOUBLE PRECISION

UDT UDT BYTE BYTE

VARBYTE

BLOB

VARBYTE
BLOB
CHARACTER CHARACTER

VARCHAR

CLOB

BYTEINT

SMALLINT

INTEGER

BIGINT

DECIMAL

NUMERIC

REAL

FLOAT

DOUBLE PRECISION

DATE

TIME

TIME WITH TIME ZONE

TIMESTAMP

TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE

VARCHAR
CLOB
DATE DATE

BYTEINT

SMALLINT

INTEGER

BIGINT

DECIMAL

NUMERIC

REAL

FLOAT

DOUBLE PRECISION

CHARACTER

VARCHAR

UDT UDT TIME TIME

TIME WITH TIME ZONE

TIME WITH TIME ZONE
TIMESTAMP TIMESTAMP

TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE

TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE
INTERVAL YEAR INTERVAL YEAR

INTERVAL YEAR TO MONTH

INTERVAL MONTH

INTERVAL YEAR TO MONTH
INTERVAL MONTH
INTERVAL DAY INTERVAL DAY

INTERVAL DAY TO HOUR

INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND

INTERVAL HOUR

INTERVAL HOUR TO MINUTE

INTERVAL HOUR TO SECOND

INTERVAL MINUTE

INTERVAL MINUTE TO SECOND

INTERVAL SECOND

INTERVAL DAY TO HOUR
INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND
INTERVAL HOUR
INTERVAL HOUR TO MINUTE
INTERVAL HOUR TO SECOND
INTERVAL MINUTE
INTERVAL MINUTE TO SECOND
INTERVAL SECOND
ARRAY/VARRAY ARRAY/VARRAY XML XML
BLOB BLOB
CLOB CLOB
DATE DATE
DECIMAL
NUMERIC DECIMAL
NUMERIC
NUMBER NUMBER
FLOAT
REAL
DOUBLE PRECISION FLOAT
REAL
DOUBLE PRECISION
BYTEINT
SMALLINT
INTEGER
BIGINT BYTEINT
SMALLINT
INTEGER
BIGINT
NUMBER NUMBER
NUMERIC NUMERIC
INTERVAL DAY INTERVAL DAY
INTERVAL DAY TO HOUR INTERVAL DAY TO HOUR
INTERVAL DAY TO MINUTE INTERVAL DAY TO MINUTE
INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND
INTERVAL HOUR INTERVAL HOUR
INTERVAL HOUR TO MINUTE INTERVAL HOUR TO MINUTE
INTERVAL HOUR TO SECOND INTERVAL HOUR TO SECOND
INTERVAL MINUTE INTERVAL MINUTE
INTERVAL MINUTE TO SECOND INTERVAL MINUTE TO SECOND
INTERVAL MONTH INTERVAL MONTH
INTERVAL SECOND INTERVAL SECOND    
INTERVAL YEAR INTERVAL YEAR
INTERVAL YEAR TO MONTH INTERVAL YEAR TO MONTH
PERIOD PERIOD
TIME TIME
TIMESTAMP TIMESTAMP
TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE
BYTE
VARBYTE
LONG VARBYTE BYTE
VARBYTE
LONG VARBYTE
CHARACTER
VARCHAR CHARACTER
VARCHAR
XML XML BLOB BLOB
CLOB CLOB
DATE DATE
DECIMAL

NUMERIC

DECIMAL

NUMERIC

NUMBER NUMBER
FLOAT

REAL

DOUBLE PRECISION

FLOAT

REAL

DOUBLE PRECISION

BYTEINT

SMALLINT

INTEGER

BIGINT

BYTEINT

SMALLINT

INTEGER

BIGINT

INTERVAL DAY INTERVAL DAY
INTERVAL DAY TO HOUR INTERVAL DAY TO HOUR
INTERVAL DAY TO MINUTE INTERVAL DAY TO MINUTE
INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND INTERVAL DAY TO SECOND
INTERVAL HOUR INTERVAL HOUR
INTERVAL HOUR TO MINUTE INTERVAL HOUR TO MINUTE
INTERVAL HOUR TO SECOND INTERVAL HOUR TO SECOND
INTERVAL MINUTE INTERVAL MINUTE
INTERVAL MINUTE TO SECOND INTERVAL MINUTE TO SECOND
INTERVAL MONTH INTERVAL MONTH
INTERVAL SECOND INTERVAL SECOND
INTERVAL YEAR INTERVAL YEAR
INTERVAL YEAR TO MONTH INTERVAL YEAR TO MONTH
PERIOD PERIOD
    TIME TIME
TIMESTAMP TIMESTAMP
TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE TIMESTAMP WITH TIME ZONE
BYTE

VARBYTE

LONG VARBYTE

BYTE

VARBYTE

LONG VARBYTE

CHARACTER

VARCHAR

CHARACTER

VARCHAR