Character Sets Categories | Teradata Vantage - Character Sets - Analytics Database - Teradata Vantage

International Character Set Support
Deployment
VantageCloud
VantageCore
Edition
Enterprise
IntelliFlex
VMware
Product
Analytics Database
Teradata Vantage
Release Number
17.20
Published
June 2022
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2023-09-27
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Product Category
Teradata Vantage™

There are two categories of character sets in a Vantage environment.

Category Description
Client (session) character set
  • Used by a client to log on and make requests to the database.
  • Used by the database for data returned to the client.
Server or internal (database) character set Used by the database to store user data.