Date format with alter session -- very urgent !!!!

Question

The default format of date is DD-MON-YY.
I like to change as DD/MM/YYYY. So I tried to do so by going
through my login in SQLPlus and wrote
ALTER SESSION
SET NLS_DATE_FORMAT = 'DD/MM/YYYY'.
The format got changed and there after every query displayed
date in dd/mm/yyyy format. But once I exit sqlplus and reenter
in sqlplus, the format goes away and the default date format i.e
dd-mon-yy comes in existence.
I want to know, how can i make my date format permanent and too
for all users.
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Answer 1

hello Khan,
You can set this format in 2 ways, one is
local setting and the other one is on server setting.
Edit your c:\windows\oracle.ini (local setting)
or your init.ora (oracle server setting)
and add this script
SET NLS_DATE_FORMAT = 'DD/MM/YYYY'
note: if there's no nls_date_format in oracle.ini, the server
nls_date_format in init.ora will be the current setting
on your PC
Hope this will help
NEC PHIl.
Shamsad Khan (guest) wrote:
: The default format of date is DD-MON-YY.
: I like to change as DD/MM/YYYY. So I tried to do so by going
: through my login in SQLPlus and wrote
: ALTER SESSION
: SET NLS_DATE_FORMAT = 'DD/MM/YYYY'.
: The format got changed and there after every query displayed
: date in dd/mm/yyyy format. But once I exit sqlplus and reenter
: in sqlplus, the format goes away and the default date format
i.e
: dd-mon-yy comes in existence.
: I want to know, how can i make my date format permanent and
too
: for all users.
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