Collation determines how strings are compared, which has a direct impact on ordering (sorting) and equality tests between strings.
What is Oracle database collation?
Collation determines how strings are compared, which has a direct impact on ordering (sorting) and equality tests between strings.
What are the default databases in Oracle?
All databases created by Oracle Database Configuration Assistant include the SYS , SYSTEM , SYSMAN , and DBSNMP database accounts.
What is Nlssort?
NLSSORT returns the string of bytes used to sort char . Both char and ‘nlsparam’ can be any of the datatypes CHAR , VARCHAR2 , NCHAR , or NVARCHAR2 . The string returned is of RAW datatype. The value of ‘nlsparam’ can have the form ‘NLS_SORT = sort’ where sort is a linguistic sort sequence or BINARY .