Character Sets Categories | Teradata Vantage - Character Sets - 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™

There are two categories of character sets in a Vantage environment.

Category Description
Client (session) character set
  • Used by a client to log on and make requests to the database.
  • Used by the database for data returned to the client.
Server or internal (database) character set Used by the database to store user data.