Re: Database character set change

Στις Mon, 27 Aug 2001 17:17:28 +0300, avm_at_trais.com.ua - aka Anatoly Moskovsky, έγραψε...

> Hi!
>
> *** On august 27 Pete's wrote:
>
> Ps> Here's how you should change the characterset(basically, this is
> Ps> taken directly from Oracle's documentation):
> Ps> 7. alter database character set <new_character_set_name>
>
> >> conversion, i.e. WE8ISO8859P1 -> EL8ISO8859P7.
>
> The current character set must be a strict subset of the character set to
> which you change. (taken from documentation :)
> I'm not sure that EL8ISO8859P7 is a superset for WE8ISO8859P1 (for Oracle).

It is not!
That was the basic problem...

> So, would "alter database character set EL8ISO8859P7" command change the
> charset?

Nope...Oracle documentation says it clearly...There occurs an error (of course I 've tried that too already)...

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