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Is it desirable, or necessary to convert the database characterset to Unicode AL32UTF8 to migrate to

edited Oct 21, 2012 11:18PM in Database Administration (MOSC) 6 commentsAnswered
Our primary database has it’s NLS_CHARACTERSET set to US7ASCII.
The default NLS_CHARACTERSET for linux, and I would assume Exadata is WE8MSWIN1252.

I asked the question of another DBA "Is it desirable, or necessary to convert the database from US7ASCII to WE8MSWIN1252 to migrate to the Exadata environment? We have a few tables with lossy data according to csscan output."

He responded that the use of Unicode AL32UTF8 is recommended.

We are about to migrate the database from 10.2.0.5 to 11.2.0.3 on solaris, in preparation to a migration to Exadata next year.

I am wondering

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