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Teradata Timestamp Tricks

This document provides several tips and tricks for working with timestamps in Teradata: 1. It shows how to cast a date and time as a timestamp, convert a timestamp to a specific format like "MMM-YYYY", and insert the current timestamp into a timestamp column. 2. It demonstrates how to add an interval like minutes to a timestamp. 3. Examples are given for converting strings and data types to timestamps, displaying timestamps in different formats, subtracting timestamps to get intervals, and using the EXTRACT function to parse dates and times.

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Teradata Timestamp Tricks

This document provides several tips and tricks for working with timestamps in Teradata: 1. It shows how to cast a date and time as a timestamp, convert a timestamp to a specific format like "MMM-YYYY", and insert the current timestamp into a timestamp column. 2. It demonstrates how to add an interval like minutes to a timestamp. 3. Examples are given for converting strings and data types to timestamps, displaying timestamps in different formats, subtracting timestamps to get intervals, and using the EXTRACT function to parse dates and times.

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Teradata Timestamp tips & tricks

TIP 1: Create Timestamp from Date and Time


SELECT CAST(CAST(CURRENT_DATE AS FORMAT 'YYYY-MM-DD') || ' ' ||
CAST(CAST(CURRENT_TIME AS FORMAT 'HH:MI:SS') AS CHAR(8)) AS
TIMESTAMP(0));
SELECT CAST(CURRENT_DATE AS TIMESTAMP(0)) + ((CURRENT_TIME - TIME
'00:00:00') HOUR TO SECOND(0));
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TIP 2: Convert timestamp field in Teradata into format 'MMM-YYYY'
select CURRENT_TIMESTAMP (FORMAT 'MMM-YYYY');
Current TimeStamp(6)
------------------Mar-2010
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Inserting current_timestamp value into timestamp(0) column
Create table stats(record_time TIMESTAMP(0));
Whenever we try to populate the current_timestamp value into this column using
insert into stats(record_time) select current_timestamp ; we get following error.
7454: Date Time field overflow.
To avoid this, we have two solutions
Solutions:
1. Data type for CURRENT_TIMESTAMP is TIMESTAMP(6) and you are trying to insert a
TIMESTAMP(6) data to a TIMESTAMP(0) and that's why you are getting this error.
insert into stats(record_time)
Sel cast(CURRENT_DATE as TimeStamp(0))
+
((CURRENT_TIME - time '00:00:00') hour to second(0)) ;
2. insert into stats(record_time) select CURRENT_TIMESTAMP(0);
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Add minutes to timestamp


How to add 10 minutes to current timestamp in TD?
SEL CURRENT_TIMESTAMP + INTERVAL '10' MINUTE.
The following example is taken straight from Teradata Functions and Operators reference
manual.
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Example 1: Subtract two TIMESTAMP Types


Consider the following table:
CREATE TABLE BillDateTime
(start_time TIMESTAMP(0),end_time TIMESTAMP(0));
Determine the difference, specifying an Interval unit of DAY TO SECOND for the result:
SELECT (end_time - start_time) DAY(4) TO SECOND FROM BillDateTime;
The DAY(4) specifies four digits of precision, and allows for a maximum of 9999 days, or
Approximately 27 years.
The result is an Interval that looks like this:
5 16:49:20.340000
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Convert varchar to timestamp


have a column in source strdate1 as VARCHAR(23) and the value being '20100310181010'.
SELECT CAST ('20100310181010' AS TIMESTAMP(0) FORMAT 'YYYYMMDDHHMISS');
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: Display Timestamp with AM /PM format


SELECT CAST(TIMESTAMP'2010-03-12 14:32:45' AS FORMAT 'yyyymmddbhh:mi:ssbt')
(char(20));
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Display timestamp in 22 Mar 2010 00:26:54.840 format


select cast(current_TIMESTAMP(3) as timestamp(3) FORMAT 'ddbmmmbyyyybhh:mi:ss.s(3)')
(char(25));
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Subtract two TIMESTAMP Types


Consider the following table:
CREATE TABLE BillDateTime (start_time TIMESTAMP(0),end_time TIMESTAMP(0) );
Determine the difference, specifying an Interval unit of DAY TO SECOND for the result:
SELECT (end_time - start_time) DAY(4) TO SECOND FROM BillDateTime;
The DAY(4) specifies four digits of precision, and allows for a maximum of 9999 days, or
Approximately 27 years.
The result is an Interval that looks like this:
5 16:49:20.340000

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: Extract function on DATE & TIME


Extracting From Current Date(March 20,2010)
Query Result
SELECT DATE; 10/03/20 (Default format)
SELECT EXTRACT(YEAR FROM DATE); 2010
SELECT EXTRACT(MONTH FROM DATE); 03
SELECT EXTRACT(DAY FROM DATE); 20
SELECT EXTRACT(YEAR FROM DATE + 365); 2011
SELECT EXTRACT(MONTH FROM DATE + 30); 04
SELECT EXTRACT(DAY FROM DATE + 12); 01
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Extracting From Current Time ( 2:42 PM )
Query Result
SELECT TIME; 14:42:32 (Default format)
SELECT EXTRACT(HOUR FROM TIME); 14
SELECT EXTRACT(MINUTE FROM TIME); 42

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