alter database character set (Was: RE: 'internal' role and 9i)

From: Yong Huang <yong321_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 08:59:36 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D70F9.20031118085936@fatcity.com>

Gopal,

Are you saying with an undocumented parameter or command, I can alter database (national) character set us7ascii even if my current (national) character set is utf8?

Yong Huang

• K Gopalakrishnan <kaygopal_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
  > INTERNAL_USE is an keyword (to enable an undocumented feature) in ALTER
  > DATABASE
  > command. THis can be used to convert the database character set if the
  > existing
  > char set (national charset) is the superset of the db charset. You can just
  > run
  > the ALTER Database command to convert the db charset.
  >
  >
  >
  > Best Regards,
  > K Gopalakrishnan
  >
  >
  >
  >
  > -----Original Message-----
  > Barry Deevey
  > Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 7:09 AM
  > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
  >
  >
  > As of yet I'm unsure how the application would be affected if I rename the
  > role - I need to do some investigation.
  >
  > I tried this in Oracle 8 and it worked fine - It just seems to be oracle 9
  > that doesn't like it.
  >
  > I've also checked v$reserved_words and INTERNAL is not listed, INTERNAL_USE
  > and INTERNAL_CONVERT are. As a test I created roles for INTERNAL_USE and
  > INTERNAL_CONVERT, hoping that it would not allow me to create them, but it
  > did, so I then ran the grant again and it also allowed it.
  >
  > Now I'm really confused!!
  

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