Re: Changing Character Set from WE8ISO8859P1 to UTF8

You can't change to UTF8 from WE8ISO8859P1, since the latter is not a subset of UTF8.
If you were on US7ASCII, the story would be different.

You have to go with export/import.

Tanel.

• Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2003 6:19 AM

> I have upgraded the database from 8.0.5/8.1.7 to 9.2.0.4 and changed
> character set using alter database character set.
> It will work without any problem. Go for it.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Saturday, December 13, 2003 9:39 PM
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> I am in the process of planning our upgrade for our 8.1.5 database to
> 8.1.7.4. This is the first step in upgrading all my databases to
> 9.2.0.4.
> As part of this upgrade I am changing the character set from
> WE8ISO8859P1 to
> UTF8. Has anyone done this change using the ALTER DATABASE CHARACTER
> SET
> command? If so, was there any problems?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Sandra Arnold
> Principal DBA
> NCI Information Systems
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