In ANSI SQL, you can use DATEADD function to easily add or subtract days/week/months/years from a date as the following code snippet shows:
SELECT DATEADD(month, 1, '20060830');
SELECT DATEADD(day, -1, '20060831');
However in Teradata this function is not implemented and you can use interval to add or subtract date units from date types.
Code snippets
Add days
select EmployeeID,Birthday,
Birthday + Interval '2' day
from TD_MS_SAMPLE_DB.Employee
Subtract days
select EmployeeID,Birthday,
Birthday - Interval '2' day
from TD_MS_SAMPLE_DB.Employee;
Add months
select EmployeeID,Birthday,
Birthday + Interval '3' month
from TD_MS_SAMPLE_DB.Employee
Subtract months
select EmployeeID,Birthday,
Birthday - Interval '3' month
from TD_MS_SAMPLE_DB.Employee