Change Character sets

From: Thomas Day <tday6_at_csc.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 09:34:27 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D3FBC.20031022093427@fatcity.com>

I have a database that was populated using an export from an US7ASCII Oracle database. The current database is WE8ISO8859P1 which is not a superset of US7ASCII. So I can't change the characterset using the ALTER DATABASE as the manual suggests. The alternative is to export the database, drop the current instance, create a new instance with the correct characterset and import the old database.

But I know that there is no data in the database that was not supported in the US7ASCII database. Is there a shortcut? The UPDATE sys.PROPS$ trick is a no-go.

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