Re: NATIONAL CHARACTERSET
Date: 29 Jul 2008 08:58:04 GMT
Message-ID: <1217321882.505296@proxy.dienste.wien.at>
astalavista <nobody_at_nowhere.com> wrote:
> What the practical difference/utility beween CHARACTERSET and
> NATIONAL CHARACTERSET ?
> In other words why NATIONAL CHARACTERSET was introduced ?
The following is only my interpretation.
Oracle adopted UNICODE rather slowly, and it is not until recently that they started recommending an UTF-8 character set for the database.
Before, if you wanted UNICODE columns, you had to use the national character set for those.
So I would say it is a leftover from those days, but a leftover that can come handy: if you have an old database that was created with a single byte character set, you can still have UNICODE columns in it without having to recreate the whole database.
Yours,
Laurenz Albe
Received on Tue Jul 29 2008 - 03:58:04 CDT