Нет необходимости в рекурсии (и очень трудно писать) или в oop над курсором.
SELECT
Person,
Min(starttime),
Max(starttime),
-- get a concatenated string
Trim(Trailing ',' FROM (XmlAgg(Reason || ',' ORDER BY Reason ) (VARCHAR(1000))))
FROM
(
SELECT Person, Start_timestamp, Stop_timestamp, Reason,
-- assign the same number to all rows within 30 seconds
Sum(flag) Over
Over (PARTITION BY Person
ORDER BY Start_timestamp
ROWS Unbounded Preceding) AS grp
FROM
(
SELECT Person, Start_timestamp, Stop_timestamp, Reason,
-- check if previous end is within 30 seconds of the current start
CASE WHEN Lag(Stop_timestamp)
Over (PARTITION BY Person
ORDER BY Start_timestamp) + INTERVAL '30' SECOND < Start_timestamp
THEN 0
ELSE 1
END AS flag
FROM tab
) AS dt
) AS dt
-- aggregate per person and group
GROUP BY Person, grp
Если ваша версия Teradata поддерживает SESSIONIZE
, вы можете упростить вычисление группы, но я не смог написать этот синтаксис c ad ho c: -)