Character Sets - FastLoad

Teradata FastLoad Reference

Product
FastLoad
Release Number
15.10
Language
English (United States)
Last Update
2018-10-07
dita:id
B035-2411
lifecycle
previous
Product Category
Teradata Tools and Utilities

Character Sets

Teradata FastLoad supports Latin, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean character sets for network‑attached and mainframe‑attached configurations. For additional information about character‑set support and definition, speed “Character Set Specification” on page 53.

Teradata FastLoad also supports UTF‑16 (workstation only) and UTF‑8 character sets. For additional information, see “Unicode® Character Sets” on page 55.

Note: FastLoad supports 8‑byte row counters. All the numbers stated above are of type 8‑byte unsigned integer. A FastLoad job can load up to 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 rows.

Note: FastLoad supports all Unicode characters in object names.

Note: If multi-byte characters are used in object names in a Teradata FastLoad script, they must be enclosed in double quotes.