Character Truncation Rules - Teradata Vantage - Analytics Database

SQL Data Types and Literals

Deployment
VantageCloud
VantageCore
Edition
VMware
Enterprise
IntelliFlex
Product
Analytics Database
Teradata Vantage
Release Number
17.20
Published
June 2022
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2025-11-06
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Product Category
Teradata Vantage™

The following rules apply to character strings.

IF the string is cast in this mode … THEN it is truncated of …
ANSI trailing pad character spaces to achieve the desired length. Truncation of other characters, or part of a multibyte character, returns an error.
Teradata trailing characters to achieve the desired length.

Truncation on Kanji1 character data types containing multibyte characters might result in truncating one byte of the multibyte character.