6.25. Teradata Functions

These functions provide compatibility with Teradata SQL.

String Functions

• char2hexint(string) → varchar

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

• index(string, substring) → bigint

• Alias for strpos() function.

• substring(string, start) → varchar

• Alias for substr() function.

• substring(string, start, length) → varchar

• Alias for substr() function.

Date Functions

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

Warning

Case insensitivity is not currently supported. All specifiers must be lowercase.

• tochar(_timestamp, format) → varchar

• Formats timestamp as a string using format.

• totimestamp(_string, format) → timestamp

• Parses string into a TIMESTAMP using format.

• todate(_string, format) → date

• Parses string into a DATE using format.