Re: How set Date format Globally

On Jul 11, 2001 at 12:35:21AM, Rangachari Sundar wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a requirement. Everytime when i make a session to the database i want the
> Date Format to beas follows
>
> 'yyyy-mm-dd hh:mi:ss'
>
> The existing default format is 'dd-mon-yyyy' and so I tried the following steps.
>
> ALTER SESSION set NLS_DATE_FORMAT='yyyy-mm-dd hh:mi:ss' and put that in the
> login.sql it worked fine for my every client session.
>
> How can I set it globally so that everytime when I make a session to database
> from any client It should be 'yyyy-mm-dd hh:mi:ss'.

Set NLS_DATE_FORMAT in init.ora

Would be cool to use dbms_session.set_nls in your logon trigger but it does not work correctly. See bug 1574885, if it's published already. (it was not). Search over metalink for examples.

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