NLS General Connection Attributes

The National Language Support (NLS) connection attributes set the default length semantics configuration, determine whether an error caused by data loss is reported, and what collating sequence for linguistic comparisons should be used.

These attributes are set by each connection and persist for the duration of the connection, but you can use the ALTER SESSION statement, described in Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database SQL Reference, to change NLS parameters to override the values that are assigned to these attributes at connection time.

The NLS general connection attributes are described in detail next.