TO_BYTES Syntax - Teradata VantageCloud Lake

Lake - Working with SQL
Deployment
VantageCloud
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Lake
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Teradata VantageCloud Lake
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Published
February 2025
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2025-11-21
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Syntax

[TD_SYSFNLIB.] TO_BYTES ( instring, in_encoding )

Syntax Elements

TD_SYSFNLIB.
Name of the database where the function is located.
instring
The string value, that is, sequence of characters to be decoded.
in_encoding
The encoding TO_BYTES uses to return the sequence of characters specified by instring.