Activating a Client Character Set - 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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Product Category
Teradata Vantage™

After loading the needed character sets into the DBC.CharTranslationsV view, you must activate the character set.

  1. Set the InstallFlag column to Y for the character set you want to activate. The limit is 16 active character sets.
    UPDATE DBC.CharTranslationsV SET InstallFlag=’Y’ WHERE CharSetId =  custom_characterset_id;

    or

    UPDATE DBC.CharTranslationsV SET InstallFlag=’Y’ WHERE CharSetName = ‘custom_characterset_name’;
  2. Perform a full restart of the database, using the tpareset utility. For usage information, see tpareset in Database Utilities, B035-1102.