Re: change Language on server after Oracle install

John,

I think you're confusing "characterset" with "language"; you can pack a lot of languages into the WE8ISO8859P1 or P15 charactersets! I think the P15 is new for including the euro character, by the way...?

Look in the view NLS_INSTANCE_PARAMETERS for a list of the configurable NLS initialization parameter settings that are current. The view NLS_DATABASE_SETTINGS is a little more extensive, including settings such as CHARACTERSET which are set using CREATE/ALTER DATABASE in addition to those configurable by initialization parameters (shown in NLS_INSTANCE_PARAMETERS)... All of the NLS parameters in NLS_INSTANCE_PARAMETERS can be changed with ALTER SESSION for testing, but they can't be changed globally using ALTER SYSTEM; requires the instance to be "bounced". Most Oracle releases have a separate "NLS" reference manual (http://docs.oracle.com) for more info...

Hope this helps...

-Tim

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> We have a AIX server with Oracle 8.1.7 installed. The language is set to
> ISO8859-1 English US.
>
> We want to change the language to French for testing purposes.
>
> Do we need to re-install Oracle?
>
> John
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