Overview of Globalization Support Features

TimesTen globalization support includes database character set, length semantics, linguistic sorts and indexes, and SQL string and character functions.

• Character set support

  You must choose a database character set when you create a database. See Choosing a Database Character Set in this book and the Supported Character Sets section in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Reference for all supported character sets. You can also choose a connection character set for a session. See Setting the Connection Character Set.

• Length semantics

  You can specify byte semantics or character semantics for defining the storage measurement of character data types. See Character Set Length Semantics Affect Data Storage.

• Linguistic sorts and indexes. You can sort data based on linguistic rules. See Linguistic Sort Rules Support Linguistic Conventions. You can use linguistic indexes to improve performance of linguistic sorts. See Using Linguistic Indexes.

• SQL string and character functions

  TimesTen provides SQL functions that return information about character strings. TimesTen also provides SQL functions that return a character from an encoded value. See SQL String and Character Functions.

Note:

This release of TimesTen does not support session language and territory.