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How to Move From One Database Character Set to Another at the Database Level (Doc ID 1059300.6)

Last updated on NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Gen 1 Exadata Cloud at Customer (Oracle Exadata Database Cloud Machine) - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Exadata Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Goal

You either migrated to a higher release or just need to have a different character set for your database. Your previous character set was either default US7ASCII or a character set that you no longer need. You want to know how to change a character set for the new database. You are NOT on Oracle8i.

Solution

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