Default Collation - 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
Teradata Vantage™

If the COLLATION parameter is not defined, the default is HOST (the collation that is compatible with the logon client).

HOST collation gives you ASCII collation on network-attached clients and EBCDIC collation on mainframe clients.