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Chapter 20: Using National Language Support . . . . . . . . . . . . 1023

Overview of National Language Support (NLS) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1025 Choosing a Character Set and National Language Character Set
for Your Database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1026 Character sets and encoding schemes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1027 Character sets and datatypes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1029 Guidelines for choosing a character set and
NLS Character set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1030 Specifying Language-Dependent Behavior in Oracle . . . . . . . . . . . . 1032 INIT.ORA parameters for configuring NLS behavior . . . . . . . . . 1032 Using the NLS_LANG environment variable
to configure NLS settings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1035 Changing NLS settings for a session . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1036 Using NLS in Oracle8i . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1038 Sorting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1038 Using NLS parameters in SQL functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1042 Using Import/Export, SQL*Loader, and NLS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1044

Appendix B: Practice Exam . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1071

Appendix C: Objective Mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1095

End-User License Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1168