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Database applications
Software that facilitates communication between a human user and a database.
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Multibyte character
Software; Database applications
A character whose character code consists of two or more bytes under a certain character encoding scheme. Note that the same character may have different character codes under different encoding ...
Multibyte character string
Software; Database applications
A character string that consists of one of the following: No characters (called a null string) One or more single-byte characters A mixture of one or more single-byte characters and one or more ...
Multilingual linguistic sort
Software; Database applications
An Oracle sort that uses evaluates strings on three levels. Asian languages require a multilingual linguistic sort even if data exists in only one language. Multilingual linguistic sorts are also ...
National character set
Software; Database applications
An alternate character set from the database character set that can be specified for NCHAR, NVARCHAR2, and NCLOB columns. National character sets are in Unicode only.
NLB files
Software; Database applications
Binary files used by the Locale Builder to define locale-specific data. They define all of the locale definitions that are shipped with a specific release of the Oracle database server. You can ...
NLS
Software; Database applications
National Language Support. NLS allows users to interact with the database in their native languages. It also allows applications to run in different linguistic and cultural environments. The term is ...
NLSRTL
Software; Database applications
National Language Support Runtime Library. This library is responsible for providing locale-independent algorithms for internationalization. The locale-specific information (that is, NLSDATA) is read ...
