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Oracle in a Nutshell
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Oracle in a Nutshell

by Rick Greenwald, David C. Kreines
December 2002
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
928 pages
85h 29m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS

Synopsis

Value: see description

Default: derived

Dynamic: ALTER SESSION

Specifies the characters to use as the group separator and decimal. This parameter setting overrides those defined implicitly by NLS_TERRITORY.

The two characters specified must be single-byte, and the characters must be different from each other. The characters cannot be any numeric character or any of the following characters: plus (+), hyphen (-), less-than sign (<), greater-than sign (>). The characters are specified in the following format:

NLS_NUMERIC_CHARACTERS = "<decimal_character><group_separator>"
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