Oracle 9i Fundamentals I Exam Cram™ 2 (Exam 1Z0-031)

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.

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