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

From: K Gopalakrishnan <kaygopal_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2003 09:19:26 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D7104.20031118091926@fatcity.com>

Yes. You can use INTERNAL_USE keyword to convert the database character set. I think there is a utility called 'csscan' character set scanner which can be
used to determine the possibility of the INTERNAL_USE conversion.

Best Regards,
K Gopalakrishnan

-----Original Message-----
Yong Huang
Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 9:00 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

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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