"Jack Dawson" <srik_at_cnet.com> wrote in message news:<9uojel$rk6$1_at_innbox.cnet.com>...
> I was browsing some Oracle websites and there was a question to sort a
> resultset in ASCII order.
>
> I did not quite understand what this means,,,
>
> Can anyone throw some light on this???
>
> Thanks
> Jack
For most installations of Oracle ASCII order represents normal sort
order. In the case of mainframe Oracle the mainframe uses EBCDIC
coding. In ASCII a character '9' comes before 'A' while in EBCDIC a
'9' comes after 'Z' so the sort order is different. Oracle supports
numerous different character sets to support foreign languages like
Spanish and German. The exact meaning of what the author meant
depends on the circumstances described in his note, but hopefully this
helps.
Received on Fri Dec 07 2001 - 07:40:22 CST
