Re: Changing character set

From: Sybrand Bakker <postbus_at_sybrandb.demon.nl>
Date: Sun, 25 Apr 1999 22:16:51 +0200
Message-ID: <925071560.20191.0.muttley.d4ee154e@news.demon.nl>

Hi
Yes, but unsupported of course. There is a sys table called prop$. One of the attributes is the character set of the database. It has been discussed in this newsgroup several times.
I would recommend searching the dejanews archives.

Hth,

Sybrand Bakker, Oracle DBA

Gocha Mchedlishvili wrote in message ...
>Hi,
>
>I have ORACLE 7.3.4 DB on SunOS 5.6
>When I created database by mistake I created it wit ASCII character set,
but
>now we need to use some characters from WE... character set. I found
>information about changing the charcter set for ORACLE 8i database , but
>didn't find any for ORACLE 7.3 database. Oracle support told that only
>possible way to do this is recreate the Database.
>Is it possible to avoid database recreation?
>
>Thank you
>
>Gocha
>
>
Received on Sun Apr 25 1999 - 15:16:51 CDT