Example: Querying for the Compressed Unicode Values of the Description column - Advanced SQL Engine - Teradata Database

SQL Operators and User-Defined Functions

Product
Advanced SQL Engine
Teradata Database
Release Number
17.00
Published
September 2020
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2023-04-27
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Product Category
Teradata Vantage™

Given the following table definition:

CREATE TABLE Pendants
   (ItemNo INTEGER,
    Description VARCHAR(100) CHARACTER SET UNICODE);

The following query returns the compressed values of the Description column.

SELECT TD_SYSFNLIB.LZCOMP(Pendants.Description);