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Oracle® OLAP DML Reference
11g Release 2 (11.2)

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NLS_LANGUAGE

The NLS_LANGUAGE option specifies the current language for the session. the setting of this option determines the value of the SESSION_NLS_LANGUAGE option.

Within a session, you can dynamically modify the value of this option using the OLAP DML syntax show below or by using the SQL statement ALTER SESSION SET option = value.  

Data Type

TEXT

Syntax

NLS_LANGUAGE = option-value

Parameters

See Oracle Database Globalization Support Guide for more information about NLS database parameters.

Examples

Example 5-76 Effects of Changing NLS_LANGUAGE

In this example, the NLS_LANG option is initially set to:

AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8ISO8859P1 

The value of YESSPELL is yes.

A change to the language setting:

NLS_LANGUAGE = 'FRENCH'

changes the value of NLS_LANG to

FRENCH_AMERICAN.WE8ISO8859P1

The value of YESSPELL is now oui.