SET SESSION COLLATION SQL Statement | VantageCloud Lake - SET SESSION COLLATION - Teradata VantageCloud Lake

Lake - Working with SQL

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VantageCloud
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Lake
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Teradata VantageCloud Lake
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February 2025
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Changes the collation sequence for the current session.

The collation sequence determines the ordering of data characters during comparison operations and when sorting data in response to a SELECT query that includes an ORDER BY or WITH ... BY clause.

You can use the HELP SESSION request to find out the collation that is in effect.

ANSI Compliance

This statement is a Teradata extension to the ANSI SQL:2011 standard.

Although SET SESSION COLLATION is technically a DCL statement, Vantage treats it as a DDL statement for transaction semantics.

Required Privileges

None.