RE: Change Character sets

Actually, WE8ISO8859P1 *is* a superset of US7ASCII, which is how we were able to do the same ALTER DATABASE (in 8.1.7.2 at the time) you mentioned.

Check out
http://metalink.oracle.com/metalink/plsql/ml2_documents.showDocument?p_id=11 9164.1&p_database_id=NOT

(pasting the link together) for a list of valid supersets. Your combo is sixth in the list.

Rich

Rich Jesse                           System/Database Administrator
rjesse_at_qtiworld.com                  Quad/Tech Inc, Sussex, WI USA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Thomas Day [mailto:tday6_at_csc.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 22, 2003 12:34 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Change Character sets
>
>
>
> 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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