Sunday, October 23, 2011

Using Oracle Configured for Different Countries



We load much of the data in our QlikView documents from Oracle databases. A common query technique uses the Oracle Next_Day function to aggregate data into weekly quantities. For example,



Select Next_Day(INC_DATE,2)-7, Count(distinct INCIDENT_NUM) From INC_LOG group by NextDay(INC_DATE,2)-7;



will gather a count of security incidents by week. The Next_Day function in the example should return a Monday date. But, sometimes, when the Oracle database is configured for a European business then the way Oracle numbers days of the week will be different from a database in the U.S. A European database may give Tuesday dates for that example query.



In order to make the SQL commands in a loadscript behave like they do in the U.S. I add a single SQL line to the loadscript following the ODBC Connect string that modifies the Oracle NLS setting temporarily while data is loaded into the document. The line I add after the ODBC connect string is:



SQL ALTER SESSION SET NLS_TERRITORY='America';



Does anyone have a different way of dealing with this issue?



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1 comment:

Kade said...

ODBC Connect option is really helpful to get new code of SQL ALTER SESSION SET.




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