Result Type and Attributes - 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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Product Category
Teradata Vantageā„¢

The result data type is a BYTE value (a fixed byte data type). The size of the byte string returned varies according to the data type of the target_arg input argument as shown in the following table.

IF the data type of target_arg is... THEN the result type is... AND the result format is the default format for...
BYTEINT BYTE(1) BYTE(1)
SMALLINT BYTE(2) BYTE(2)
INTEGER BYTE(4) BYTE(4)
BIGINT BYTE(8) BYTE(8)

The default title for TO_BYTE is: TO_BYTE(target_arg).