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Conversion functions

Timestream for LiveAnalytics supports the following conversion functions.

cast()

The syntax of the cast function to explicitly cast a value as a type is as follows.

cast(value AS type)

try_cast()

Timestream for LiveAnalytics also supports the try_cast function that is similar to cast but returns null if cast fails. The syntax is as follows.

try_cast(value AS type)