Export Widths - Teradata Vantage - Database Engine 20

International Character Set Support

Deployment
VantageCloud
VantageCore
Edition
VMware
Enterprise
IntelliFlex
Product
Database Engine 20
Teradata Vantage
Release Number
20.00
Published
June 2025
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2025-08-28
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Product Category
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The number of characters or bytes Database Engine 20 exports can exceed or be less than the number of characters or bytes the client application expects to receive unless the export width is set properly.

The export width defines how the system reserves space for each character field in result set rows returned to Teradata clients. The global export width is set by default, but you can change the setting. In addition, users with the required privileges can override the global setting with a session-level export width setting.

64000 bytes is the maximum possible for an exported character string.