Data Types on Which String Functions can Operate - Advanced SQL Engine - Teradata Database

SQL Functions, Expressions, and Predicates

Product
Advanced SQL Engine
Teradata Database
Release Number
17.05
17.00
Published
June 2020
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2021-01-30
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Teradata Vantageā„¢

The following table lists all the data types that can be processed as strings. Note that not all types are acceptable to all functions. See the individual functions for the types they can process.

Data Type Grouping
Character Byte Numeric
  • CHARACTER
  • VARCHAR
  • CLOB
  • BYTE
  • VARBYTE
  • BLOB
  • BYTEINT
  • DECIMAL
  • FLOAT
  • INTEGER
  • NUMERIC
  • SMALLINT