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
Published
June 2025
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2025-08-28
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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.