Example: Converting a PERIOD Data Type to Its Canonical Character String Representation - Advanced SQL Engine - Teradata Database

SQL Data Types and Literals

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Advanced SQL Engine
Teradata Database
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17.05
17.00
Published
June 2020
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English (United States)
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2021-01-22
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Assume pts is a PERIOD(TIMESTAMP(2)) column in table t with a value of PERIOD '(2005-02-02 12:12:12.34, 2006-02-03 12:12:12.34)'.

In the following example, a PERIOD(TIMESTAMP(2)) column is cast as CHARACTER(52) using the CAST function.

SELECT CAST(pts AS CHARACTER(52)) FROM t;

The following is returned:

('2005-02-02 12:12:12.34', '2006-02-03 12:12:12.34')