LEFT Usage Notes - Teradata Vantage

Teradata® VantageCloud Lake
Deployment
VantageCloud
Edition
Lake
Product
Teradata Vantage
Published
January 2023
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2024-12-11
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When submitting queries using function LEFT on a client that uses ODBC, disable ODBC parsing. Otherwise, the query may be altered by ODBC to a SUBSTR function call.

Character Sets Supported

The following character sets are supported with the LEFT function:
  • Unicode
  • Latin
  • Kanji SJIS
  • Graphic