Re: Developing against English version of Oracle, running against French version

james_at_microsec.co.uk (James Lavery) wrote in message news:<b966b3b3.0207050147.13e2c3e8_at_posting.google.com>...
> What about character sets etc.

For English and French the character set is the same, ISO 8859-1, no problem.

I would say that collations are also no problem. Officially English and French
have different sort order rules, when two words are the same in non-accented form but different in accented form (read my June 2002 article on "Collations" in http://dbazine.com/gulutzen1.html). But that's trivial, just use one order.

Peter Gulutzan
Co-Author of SQL PERFORMANCE TUNING which Addison-Wesley will publish in September 2002, see blurb at
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/ocelotsql/tuning.htm Received on Tue Jul 09 2002 - 12:30:37 CDT