Sort Order Considerations for Siebel Databases

If your deployment requires that you use a nonbinary sort order (for example, if your local language does not use binary sort order), then you must consider several functional limitations that particularly affect development environment upgrades. If these limitations are unacceptable, then consider re-creating your database to use binary sort order. However, be aware of these considerations:

• You cannot use Siebel Tools to create or update a Siebel Runtime Repository on a database that uses a nonbinary sort order.

• You cannot perform a repository merge on a database that uses a nonbinary sort order.

• Databases that use nonbinary sort order might perform slower than databases that use binary sort order.

For Siebel language support, Unicode support, and legacy code page support, see 1513102.1 (Article ID) on My Oracle Support.