Arguments - Advanced SQL Engine - Teradata Database

SQL Date and Time Functions and Expressions

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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B035-1211
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Product Category
Teradata Vantage™
value Description
Character string expression that represents a date String must match the 'YYYY-MM-DD' format.
Character string expression that represents a time String must match the 'HH:MI:SS.SSSSSS' format.
Floating point type Value must be a time value encoded with the algorithm HOUR * 10000 + MINUTE * 100 + SECOND.

Only HOUR, MINUTE, and SECOND can be extracted from a floating point value.

Externally created time values can be appropriately encoded and stored in a REAL column to any desired precision if the encoding creates a value representable by REAL without precision loss.

Do not store time values as REAL in any new applications. Instead, use the more rigorously defined ANSI SQL:2011 DateTime data types.

UDT UDT must have an implicit cast that casts between the UDT and any of the following predefined types:
  • Numeric
  • Character
  • DateTime

To define an implicit cast for a UDT, use the CREATE CAST statement and specify the AS ASSIGNMENT clause. For more information, see Teradata Vantage™ - SQL Data Definition Language Syntax and Examples, B035-1144.

Implicit type conversion of UDTs for system operators and functions, including EXTRACT, is a Teradata extension to the ANSI SQL standard. To disable this extension, set the DisableUDTImplCastForSysFuncOp field of the DBS Control Record to TRUE. See Teradata Vantage™ - Database Utilities , B035-1102 .

For more information on implicit type conversion of UDTs, see "Implicit Type Conversions" in Teradata Vantage™ - Data Types and Literals, B035-1143.

Not a character string expression or floating point type or UDT Expression must evaluate to a DateTime or Interval type.