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Day of week (1-7) and NLS settings

Peter GjelstrupApr 11 2011 — edited Apr 11 2011

This is embarrassing, but I am going nuts here.

Today is monday. Around here, this is the first day of the week.

So,

SQL> select to_char(sysdate, 'd') from dual;

TO_CHAR(SYSDATE,'D')
--------------------
2                   
1 row selected.

Fine, that is probably becuase of my NLS settings:

SQL> select * from nls_session_parameters
where parameter = 'NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE';

PARAMETER                      VALUE                                   
------------------------------ ----------------------------------------
NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE              AMERICAN                                
1 row selected.

Let's change it then, into something where people know that monday is the first day of the week ;)

SQL> alter session set nls_language = german;
Session altered.

SQL> select to_char(sysdate, 'd') from dual;

TO_CHAR(SYSDATE,'D')
--------------------
2                   
1 row selected.

No luck, how about

SQL> select to_char(sysdate, 'd', 'NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE = danish') from dual;

TO_CHAR(SYSDATE,'D','NLS_DATE_LANGUAGE=DANISH')
-----------------------------------------------
2                                              
1 row selected.

Wrong variable, maybe. How about NLS_TERRITORY

SQL> alter session set nls_territory = 'DENMARK';
Session altered.

SQL> select to_char(sysdate, 'd') from dual;

TO_CHAR(SYSDATE,'D')
--------------------
1                   
1 row selected.

Great! - But I don't like to alter session like this, and

SQL> select to_char(sysdate, 'd', 'NLS_TERRITORY = denmark') from dual:
select to_char(sysdate, 'd', 'NLS_TERRITORY = denmark') from dual
                                                             *
Error at line 1
ORA-12702: invalid NLS parameter string used in SQL function

Dang, out of ideas. Am I just on a mission impossible here?

Regards
Peter

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This post has been answered by Frank Kulash on Apr 11 2011

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800322

Hello,

In UNIX, I have an application in wich i want to
execute a shell script.
I would like to put that script in the jar file and
be able to execute it from the main application.

Then do it - write an application that can execute a script. But usually, executing a script is something the shell does, so it'll be the shell that needs to be able to read the file. You have to extract it, or you have to manually issue the commands and handle the piping, using Runtime.exec().

807569

Thanks for your answer
I extracted the script and piped it to a "/bin/ksh -e " command

I did not thought to piped it ;)
Thanks a lot

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