Teradata functions

These functions provide compatibility with Teradata SQL.

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String functions

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char2hexint

char2hexint(string) -> varchar

Returns the hexadecimal representation of the UTF-16BE encoding of the string.

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index

index(string, substring) -> bigint

Alias for strpos() function.

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Date functions

The functions in this section use a format string that is compatible with the Teradata datetime functions. The following table, based on the Teradata reference manual, describes the supported format specifiers:

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to_char

to_char(timestamp, format) -> varchar

Formats timestamp as a string using format.

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to_timestamp

to_timestamp(string, format) -> timestamp

Parses string into a TIMESTAMP using format.

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to_date

to_date(string, format) -> date

Parses string into a DATE using format.