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NLS_Character set [message #627463] Wed, 12 November 2014 03:10 Go to next message
prejib
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Hi ,

I need to set the nls_language and nls_territory to American America. Currently it is 'MEXICAN SPANISH' so the ORA- error comments are coming in Spanish. How can I set this to AMERICAN AMERICA. When I go thru the oracle documents(Setting Up a Globalization Support Environment) , it gives the command for session and environments but not for the initialization parameters. Please help me to change NLS_LANGUAGE in the initialization parameter . Current values are given below .

SQL> select * from nls_database_parameters;

PARAMETER                      VALUE
------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NLS_LANGUAGE                   AMERICAN
NLS_TERRITORY                  AMERICA
NLS_CURRENCY                   $
NLS_ISO_CURRENCY               AMERICA
NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS         .,
NLS_CHARACTERSET               AL32UTF8
NLS_CALENDAR                   GREGORIAN
NLS_DATE_FORMAT                DD-MON-RR
NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE              AMERICAN
NLS_SORT                       BINARY
NLS_TIME_FORMAT                HH.MI.SSXFF AM

PARAMETER                      VALUE
------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
NLS_TIMESTAMP_FORMAT           DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF AM
NLS_TIME_TZ_FORMAT             HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZR
NLS_TIMESTAMP_TZ_FORMAT        DD-MON-RR HH.MI.SSXFF AM TZR
NLS_DUAL_CURRENCY              $
NLS_COMP                       BINARY
NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS           BYTE
NLS_NCHAR_CONV_EXCP            FALSE
NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET         AL16UTF16
NLS_RDBMS_VERSION              11.2.0.1.0

20 rows selected.

SQL> show parameter nls

NAME                                 TYPE        VALUE
------------------------------------ ----------- ------------------------------
nls_calendar                         string
nls_comp                             string      BINARY
nls_currency                         string
nls_date_format                      string
nls_date_language                    string
nls_dual_currency                    string
nls_iso_currency                     string
[b]nls_language                         string      MEXICAN SPANISH[/b]
nls_length_semantics                 string      BYTE
nls_nchar_conv_excp                  string      FALSE
nls_numeric_characters               string

NAME                                 TYPE        VALUE
------------------------------------ ----------- ------------------------------
nls_sort                             string
[b]nls_territory                        string      MEXICO[/b]
nls_time_format                      string
nls_time_tz_format                   string
nls_timestamp_format                 string
nls_timestamp_tz_format              string
SQL>


Thanks & Regards,
Prejib
Re: NLS_Character set [message #627485 is a reply to message #627463] Wed, 12 November 2014 05:26 Go to previous message
Michel Cadot
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You change them as you change any other parameters: modifying init.ora or using ALTER SYSTEM.
However, note that any setting you made at instance level will be overridden by client ad session settings.

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