NUMTODSINTERVAL - Teradata Database

NUMTODSINTERVAL

Purpose  

Converts numeric_value into an INTERVAL DAY(4) TO SECOND(6) value.

Syntax  

where:

Syntax element …	Specifies …
TD_SYSFNLIB	the name of the database where the function is located.
numeric_value	a numeric argument. If numeric_value is NULL, NULL is returned
interval_unit	a character argument. interval_unit specifies the unit of value for numeric_value. It must be one of the following case-insensitive values: 'DAY' 'HOUR' 'MINUTE' 'SECOND' Any value that overflows the INTERVAL DAY(4) TO SECOND(6) value results in an error. If interval_unit is NULL, NULL is returned.

ANSI Compliance

This is a Teradata extension to the ANSI SQL:2011 standard.

Invocation

NUMTODSINTERVAL is an embedded services system function. For information on activating and invoking embedded services functions, see “Embedded Services System Functions” on page 24.

Argument Types and Rules

Expressions passed to this function must have the following data types:

numeric_value = BYTEINT, SMALLINT, INTEGER, BIGINT, DECIMAL/NUMERIC, FLOAT/REAL/DOUBLE PRECISION, or NUMBER

interval_unit = CHAR or VARCHAR

Result Type

The return value data type is INTERVAL DAY(4) TO SECOND(6).

Example  

The following query:

SELECT NUMTODSINTERVAL(100, 'DAY'); 

returns the result '100 00:00:00.000000', which is 100 days.

Example  

The following query:

SELECT NUMTODSINTERVAL(100, 'HOURS'); 

returns the result '4 04:00:00.000000', which is 4 days, 4 hours.

Example  

The following query:

SELECT NUMTODSINTERVAL(1600, 'MINUTES'); 

returns the result '1 02:40:00.000000', which is 1 day, 2 hours, 40 minutes.

Example  

The following query:

SELECT NUMTODSINTERVAL(3.5, 'HOURS'); 

returns the result 3 hours, 30 minutes.