Re: convert CL8WIN1251 to UTF8

From: Cold Cut <jeffc_at_sympatico.ca>
Date: Mon, 05 Aug 2002 12:10:04 -0400
Message-ID: <htx39.5066$HH2.359917@news20.bellglobal.com>

If I remember from my DB Admin exam that the character set of the database is set when it's created and can't be changed. This is for version 8i.

Vadim wrote:

> I try to change my database character set from CL8WIN1251 to UTF8.
>
> ALTER DATABASE CHARACTER SET UTF8;
> *
> Ora-12712:new character set must be a superset of old character set.
>
> Now I have not some data stored in my database. Can I force my
> database to do this? Or I must create the new database with UTF8
> charset and make import?
Received on Mon Aug 05 2002 - 11:10:04 CDT