Available Collation Sequences - 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
Publication Date
June 2025
Content Type
Configuration
User Guide
Publication ID
B035-1125-200K
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Product Category
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The collation sequence for MULTINATIONAL collation can be any one of the following:

  • Teradata Standard Multinational (a two-level comparison based on the Unicode collation standard).

    This is the initial default sequence for any user or session with [SESSION] COLLATION set to MULTINATIONAL.

    It can be altered using the macro CollAddStandard.

  • Norwegian Standard (based on the Norwegian collation sequence).
  • Swedish Standard (based on the Swedish collation sequence).
  • Any one of three predefined Japanese collations:
    • Katakana_Standard
    • Kanji5026_Standard
    • Kanji5035_Standard
  • A site-defined collation sequence.