Gopal,

Are you saying with an undocumented parameter or command, I can alter database
(national) character set us7ascii even if my current (national) character set
is utf8?

Yong Huang

--- K Gopalakrishnan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> INTERNAL_USE is an keyword (to enable an undocumented feature) in ALTER
> DATABASE
> command. THis can be used to convert the database character set if the
> existing
> char set (national charset) is the superset of the db charset. You can just
> run
> the ALTER Database command to convert the db charset.
> 
> 
> 
> Best Regards,
> K Gopalakrishnan
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> Barry Deevey
> Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2003 7:09 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> 
> 
> As of yet I'm unsure how the application would be affected if I rename the
> role - I need to do some investigation.
> 
> I tried this in Oracle 8 and it worked fine - It just seems to be oracle 9
> that doesn't like it.
> 
> I've also checked v$reserved_words and INTERNAL is not listed, INTERNAL_USE
> and INTERNAL_CONVERT are.  As a test I created roles for INTERNAL_USE and
> INTERNAL_CONVERT, hoping that it would not allow me to create them, but it
> did, so I then ran the grant again and it also allowed it.
> 
> Now I'm really confused!!

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