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Message Posted: Thu, 10 May 2012 @ 10:50:53 GMT

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<-- Anonymously Posted: Thursday, May 10, 2012 04:15 -->

Hi Wang,

As many of the gurus have replied, it's not possible to compress timestamp for any value other than NULL.

But if you are having both a start and end timestamp, then you can use PERIOD datatype (from Teradata 13.0 onwards). This will help to reduce the space usage. For details, please have a look here.

developer.teradata.com/...

HTH.

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