Changes and Additions - Basic Teradata Query

Basic Teradata Query Reference

Product
Basic Teradata Query
Release Number
16.20
Published
October 2018
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2020-02-20
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Product Category
Teradata Tools and Utilities

The following changes were made to this book in support of the current release. For a complete list of changes to the product, see the Teradata® Tools and Utilities Release Definition (B035-2029) associated with this release.

Date Release Description
October 2018 16.20.11
  • In Chapter 5, added the BRANCHMSG command.
  • In Chapter 5, replaced IF...THEN command with IF, ELSEIF, ELSE, and ENDIF commands.
  • In Chapter 5, documented new RESET option for the MESSAGEOUT command.
  • In Chapter 5, documented support for 64-bit BTEQ.
  • In Chapter 3, under "Running BTEQ Batch Jobs" section, updated STEPLIB description.
April 2018 16.20.06
  • In Chapter 1, updated descriptions for command set controls.
  • In Chapter 5, updated syntax diagrams for the following commands:
    • COMPILE
    • DECIMALDIGITS
    • ERRORLEVEL
    • ERRORONDBSWARNING
    • EXPORT - MF
    • FOOTING
    • FORMCHAR
    • HEADING and RTITLE
    • HELP BTEQ
    • IMPORT
    • LOGMECH
    • LOGDATA
    • MAXERROR
    • MESSAGEOUT
    • NOTIFY
    • NULL
    • PACK
    • REMARK
    • REPEAT
    • REPEATSTOP
    • RETLIMIT
    • RUN
    • SEPARATOR
    • SESSION CHARSET
    • SESSION RESPBUFLEN
    • SESSION SQLFLAG
    • SESSIONS
    • TMSMMSG
    • TRANSLATECTRLSTOSPACES
    • TRIMTRAILINGSPACES
    • WIDTH
  • In Chapter 5, updated command "Purpose" descriptions and "Usage Notes".
  • In Chapter 1, under "Command Set", updated the ERROROUT description.
  • In Chapter 2, updated the "Command Line Options" section.
  • In Chapter 5, updated the ERROROUT command section.
  • In Chapters 3 and 5, and Appendix C, updated content to reflect that BTEQ only writes error messages to the error stream defined by the ERROROUT setting.
  • In Chapters 1 and 3, added content for the new TRAILINGLINES command.
November 2017 16.20.00
  • In Chapter 5, updated the IMPORT command content to reflect stricter VARTEXT delimiter validation, and allowed use of hexadecimal sequences for Unicode sessions.
  • In Chapter 1, under "Determining the Current Version of BTEQ," updated content to be version-neutral.
  • In Chapter 5, for both the IMPORT and EXPORT commands, updated workstation-attached syntax diagrams and 'init-string' and modname parameter descriptions.
  • For the EXPORT, IMPORT, and NOTIFY commands, integrated subtopics into the main topic, so they would not appear in a PDF Bookmark/TOC. This was done for consistency with the other command topics.
  • In Chapter 5, for the IMPORT command Usage Notes, added content to support BTEQ using Data Connector for reading VARTEXT import records.