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Re: Roxen and Oracle.... date format Peter J. Holzer <hjp[at]wsr[dot]ac[dot]at> 09-05-2003
On 2003-05-08 15:11:45 -0400, Graeme B. Davis wrote:
> Is there a way to set an option somewhere in Roxen or the environment
> so that Oracle date/time fields are returned as ISO standard dates...
> yyyy-mm-dd 24:00:00 ?
> 
> I know you can issue the ALTER SESSION SET NLS_DATE_FORMAT command,
> but I'd rather not do that everytime I run a query.

I generally have that at the top of every page which runs a query.

> Any ideas?  I
> don't have access to the server, so I can't set it there...
                       ^^^^^^^^^^
Which server? The Roxen server or the Oracle server? 

If you have access to the startup scripts of the Roxen server, simply
set the environment variable NLS_DATE_FORMAT there. 

I am not sure how Roxen handles database connections, though: If several
virtual servers share the same session, some other page could change the
date format again.

	hp

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