Re: HELP! Default date format in SQL*Plus isn't dd-mon-yy!

From: Volker Hetzer <volker.hetzer_at_ieee.org>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 13:35:13 +0100
Message-ID: <b3nl22$3np$1@dackel.pdb.sbs.de>

"R" <R_at_R.R> wrote in message news:9WC7a.349189$sV3.10572956_at_news3.calgary.shaw.ca...
> Documentation? There's documentation? There's none that I can find, even
> searching the Oracle website, that is useful. I did a number of difference
> searches on Oracles site and couldn't find one example of how to actually
> set the NLS variables although there were pages of just how wonderful those
> variables were.

What do you mean, you can't find the documentation? When you order oracle it comes on a separate CD.

> Again, where is this manual?

Look, when you buy oracle you get a bunch of CDs and one of them has

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Oracle 9i
Database

Documentation
Release 2 (9.2.0.2.0)
Viewable CD

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Written on it.
The part number is B10500-01 and it's written on the CD too.

> From school I got the introduction workbook.
> The only references in it are directly related to the topics taught and
> nothing more. I downloaded and installed the Oracle 9i PE package from
> Oracles site and again, I can find no documentation.
No idea what you get when you download. Have you tried ordering it per CD? Much safer to have the stuff on CD.

>
> > Full documentation, requiring free registration, is available at
> > http://tahiti.oracle.com
>
> First that I've heard of this site. This look like exactly what I needed.
> Many thanks!

This is the same doc you get when you browse your doc CD with a web browser. I find it much less convenient than the pdf browsing from the CD.

> Naw... I should publish any opinion I like as this is my experience working
> with Oracle so far.

Ok, I've just had a look at the download stuff. The Disk1 archive has a directory "doc" and a start_here.htm. Did you have a look at it?
Follow the "Download Documentation"-link?

> I've sent several enquiries to the folks at Oracle and
> they haven't even bothered to send me a PFO message.
I guess they're fed up with telling people to read the screen in front of them.

Greetings!
Volker Received on Fri Feb 28 2003 - 06:35:13 CST