SHOW TABLE and Language Support Mode of a System - Advanced SQL Engine - Teradata Database

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Product
Advanced SQL Engine
Teradata Database
Release Number
17.10
Published
July 2021
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2021-07-27
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Product Category
Teradata Vantage™

You cannot submit a SHOW TABLE request against a dictionary table to determine the language support mode for your system because Vantage always returns the value Unicode as the response to such a request.

Instead, you must submit the following SELECT request to determine the language support mode used by your system.

SELECT infodata
FROM DBC.dbcinfoV
WHERE infokey='language support mode';
IF your system uses this language support mode … THEN the InfoKey value the system returns is …
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