Unicode ODBC Applications - ODBC Driver for Teradata

ODBC Driver for Teradata® User Guide

Product
ODBC Driver for Teradata
Release Number
17.10
Published
October 2021
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2021-11-02
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Product Category
Teradata Tools and Utilities

In this subsection, assume that the Unicode application is limited to SQL_C_WCHAR data binding and a Unicode session character set is used.

The following figure depicts the programming model for Unicode applications accessing ODBC Driver for Teradata.



  1. SQL-Text and SQL_C_WCHAR character data flows between the Unicode ODBC application and the ODBC Driver Manager.
  2. The ODBC Driver Manager does not convert SQL-Text or the character strings and passes them as is to ODBC Driver for Teradata.
  3. ODBC Driver for Teradata does not convert SQL-Text or character strings and passes them as is to the database.