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Oracle® Database Reference
10g Release 2 (10.2)

Part Number B14237-02
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NLS_SORT

Property Description
Parameter type String
Syntax NLS_SORT = { BINARY | linguistic_definition }
Default value Derived from NLS_LANGUAGE
Modifiable ALTER SESSION
Range of values BINARY or any valid linguistic definition name

NLS_SORT specifies the collating sequence for ORDER BY queries.

You must use the NLS_SORT operator with comparison operations if you want the linguistic sort behavior.

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