Creating a Valid-Time Table as a Copy of a Nontemporal Table - Advanced SQL Engine - Teradata Database

Temporal Table Support

Product
Advanced SQL Engine
Teradata Database
Release Number
17.05
17.00
Published
June 2020
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2021-01-23
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Product Category
Teradata Vantage™

To create a valid-time table as a copy of an existing nontemporal table, use CREATE TABLE … AS (the copy table form of CREATE TABLE). Use the AS clause to specify a temporal query that returns a table with valid time.

Example: Creating a Valid-Time Table as a Copy of a Nontemporal Table

Consider the following nontemporal table:

   CREATE TABLE Policy_NT (
      Policy_ID INTEGER,
      Customer_ID INTEGER,
      Policy_Type CHAR(2) NOT NULL,
      Policy_Details CHAR(40)
      )
   PRIMARY INDEX(Policy_ID);

To create a copy of the Policy_NT table as a valid-time table, use a nonsequenced query in the AS clause of CREATE TABLE to specify a valid time period of applicability qualifier on the SELECT. The result is a valid-time table where the period of validity for every row is set to the period of applicability that was used in the query.

   CREATE MULTISET TABLE Policy(
      Policy_ID,
      Customer_ID,
      Policy_Type,
      Policy_Details,
      Validity
      ) AS (
      NONSEQUENCED VALIDTIME PERIOD '(2009-01-01, UNTIL_CHANGED)'
      SELECT *
      FROM Policy_NT)
   WITH DATA
   PRIMARY INDEX(Policy_ID);
The resulting Policy table has a valid-time column named Validity:
   SHOW TABLE Policy;

   CREATE MULTISET TABLE Policy ,NO FALLBACK ,
      NO BEFORE JOURNAL,
      NO AFTER JOURNAL,
      CHECKSUM = DEFAULT,
      DEFAULT MERGEBLOCKRATIO
      (
      Policy_ID INTEGER,
      Customer_ID INTEGER,
      Policy_Type CHAR(2) CHARACTER SET LATIN NOT CASESPECIFIC,
      Policy_Details CHAR(40) CHARACTER SET LATIN NOT CASESPECIFIC,
      Validity PERIOD(DATE) AS VALIDTIME)
   PRIMARY INDEX ( Policy_ID );