Chapter 7. Globalization Support

Terms you'll need to understand:

• National Language Support

• NLS

• Language support

• Territory support

• Character set support

• Linguistic sorting

• Message support

• Date and time formats

• Numeric formats

• Monetary formats

Concepts you'll need to master:

• Choose database character set and national character set for a database.

• Specify language-dependent behavior using initialization parameters.

• Specify language-dependent behavior using environment variables.

• Specify language-dependent behavior using the ALTER SESSION command.

• Use different types of National Language Support parameters.

• Explain the influence on language-dependent application behavior.

• Obtain information about global support usage from the database.

We live in an increasingly global society. To keep up with what is going on in business today, Oracle has added increased globalization support to its offerings standard with its database.

This chapter takes a look at what globalization includes in the Oracle 9i database.