Creating a table - forum topic by Ashutosh
Hi all, PLZ look into this queryCreate table ptemp.ateds as ( select a.ACCT_I,a.Open_D, a.Clse_D, year(a.clse_d) - year(a.open_d) as dte from pvdata.acct_base as a having a.open_d != null and...
View ArticleConverting Rows to Columns - response (3) by Adeel Chaudhry
Is it one-time activity? or going to be a continous process?
View ArticleCreating a table - response (1) by dnoeth
Hi Ashutosh, this problem pops up all every few days/weeks, the last time was yesterday :-) http://forums.teradata.com/forum/database/length-not-working Replace YEAR(a.clse_d) with EXTRACT(YEAR FROM...
View ArticleCheck for special character in a string - response (2) by dnoeth
Hi Chandrashekar, if oTranslate is installed it's easier. When you got a specific list of those special characters you might do WHERE CHAR_LENGTH(col) <> CHAR_LENGTH(oTranslate(col, '/_#.', ''))...
View Articlethe meaning of "task" - response (2) by dnoeth
Hi William, tasks are so-called AMP Worker Tasks (AWT), the "worker bees" of Teradata. Each step in Explain will require one or more AWTs to do the work, the number depends on the type of step....
View ArticleUpdating data in a table for multiple records from a file using Import -...
Hi Kumar, the syntax you're looking for is a MERGE INTO, please check the manuals. There's also an old UPDATE ELSE INSERT syntax, but MERGE is more flexible. Dieter
View ArticleWhy subqueries in case are not working in teradata? - response (6) by dnoeth
Hi Sahish, if you're on TD13.00 this syntax should run as is, otherwise you have to rewrite it as an Outer Join. Dieter
View Articleconcatenate value of multiple rows into one Single row - response (4) by dnoeth
You should post new questions as a new topic. Based on your narration you might simply do a RANK instead of ROW_NUMBER? Dieter
View ArticleVolatile table V/S Perminent table - response (4) by KS42982
These all tables that you mentioned keep the data temporarily with different purpose. If you are looking to store the data permanently then you should not use either of these kind. Let us know what is...
View Articleunion and filter - forum topic by tclear
select item , location , date , quantity from t1 union select item , location , date , quantity from t2 there will be cases where item,location,date will be the same, but quantity different. in that...
View ArticleTeradata Eclipse Plug-in 14.02 does not load in Mac version of Eclipse EE...
There currently is no plan for releasing a fix for this problem sooner than our normal release schedule.
View Articleunion and filter - response (1) by dnoeth
A direct translation of should be: select item , location , date , quantity from ( select 1 as x, item , location , date , quantity from t1 union select 2 as x, item , location , date , quantity from...
View ArticleUpdating data in a table for multiple records from a file using Import -...
Thanks, Dieter. MERGE INTO function is reqally useful for me in this case when I have only couple records. But, can we use this MERGE INTO along with INSERT INTO? I wanted to update else insert a...
View ArticleAutomated scripts to import flat files into Teradata?? - response (3) by...
Hi Bill, can you please let me know if this worked for you or is there any other soltuion to it? I have a similiar situation like this: I have created a topic for the...
View ArticleUpdating data in a table for multiple records from a file using Import -...
Hi Kumar, based on your description i thought you already know how to import using SQLA/BTEQ. Assuming your data is in a readable delimited format: In SQLA set the delimiter to the correct char (in...
View ArticleUpdating data in a table for multiple records from a file using Import -...
Thanks, Dieter. I think I got the solution. for this I have created the temporary table and imported data from a file then by using this temporary table I am updating the actual table using MERGE INTO...
View ArticleMove Data does not function Teradata 12 - response (17) by fgrimmer
Brett, I have opened a JIRA issue for the Move Space dialog to use the current (and possibly filtered Databases list). I hope that addresses the performance issue. Our next release is currently planned...
View ArticleHandling Special Characters - forum topic by ritwikdey2809
Hi, I have a table which has a column where I can find special characters like &Altide; &Abc; etc. The total list of special characters is 110, I identified them using the logic anything...
View ArticleThere is another way to remove a volatile table? - response (3) by Fred
HELP VOLATILE TABLE; Will list the Volatile Tables that exist for the current session. You can simply DROP TableName; for any volatile table you want to remove prior to disconnecting the session. For...
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