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Message Posted: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 @ 16:07:30 GMT
| Subj: | | Re: String length function |
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| From: | | Hough, David A |
Just so you know, LENGTH is *not* a Teradata function. If you run these queries form BTEQ, you'll get a syntax error. It's actually an ODBC
function which is mapped by the driver to CHARACTER_LENGTH. Run a 'select length(user);' from Queryman and look at the column heading.
There are a large number of other functions which can also be mapped, and I think the Teradata drive is not entirely compliant with the ODBC
standard. The driver should not do substitutions of this type unless the function is enclosed in curly braces {} (I think).
There is also an alternate date format {date yyyy-mm-dd} (I think - it's been a while) that may also cause problems. Nobody hand codes a
string like that, but some of the 3rd party query generators do.
/dave hough
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