Setting Globalization Support Attributes
You can set globalization support attributes.
Parameter | Description |
---|---|
|
Indicates the character encoding used by a database. |
|
Determines the character encoding for the connection, which may be different from the database character set. |
|
Indicates the collating sequence to use for linguistic comparisons. |
|
Sets the default length semantics. |
|
Determines whether an error is reported when there is data loss during an implicit or explicit data type conversion between |
DatabaseCharacterSet
must be set during database creation. There is
no default. See Choosing a Database Character Set.
The rest of the attributes are set during connection to a database. For more
information about ConnectionCharacterSet
, see Setting the Connection Character Set.
You can use the ALTER SESSION
statement to change the following
attributes during a session:
-
NLS_SORT
-
NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS
-
NLS_NCHAR_CONV_EXCP
For more information, see ALTER SESSION in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database SQL Reference and Connection Attributes in the Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database Reference.