Nls_date_format in SQL Developer

Hello all,
the fields from data type DATE are shown in format 'DD.MM.YY' .
There ist a possibility to change this using the statement
alter session set nls_date_format='DD.MM.YYYY HH24:MI:SS'
I have to write this always when I establish a new database connection. I'd like to have this representation for all connections.
Is there a way to execute this statement at starting SQL-Developer or at connecting?
Thanks in advance for your answer!
Regards,
Tzonka

There will be a preference for this in 1.1, not yet released. For SQL Developer 1.0 there are various workarounds for this. A number of threads in this forum have already responded to this. Here is one:
Re: Alter session command on start-up
Regards
Sue

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>
Problem: Developers are inserting a Date record into a varchar field.
>
No - they aren't. That is physically impossible. The only thing that can be stored in a 'varchar field' is a string. Oracle considers ANYTHING stored in a character column to be a string.
Date values are stored in DATE columns. Perhaps you meant that developers are converting DATE values to strings and then storing the string in a 'varchar field'?
>
I can't change this process right now. Non-Date info is stored here also.
>
WONDERFUL! Why use a column to stored just one type of data? That is extremely wasteful. Hopefully you store strings that represent numbers in that same column also? It makes the data model so much easier to understand if developers only need to learn one datatype.
>
Would require a code change.
>
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I've got good news though. You are now on version Oracle 11.2.0.3 and Oracle, after months of protests by some of their largest clients, has finally dropped the exhorbitant license fees for using some of the more esoteric datatypes like DATE and NUMBER.
You should suggest to your manager that they use some of the license fee money saved to hire developers that already know how to design proper data models and use those new-fangled datatypes.
Trust me - once you've made it up that steep learning curve your code will have fewer of those pesky 'dirty data' issues to deal with.
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This problem is quite strange in that when I've been able to manually set American_america.utf8, things work.Sorry to say, but it seems you may have an incorrect setup.
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28,47,65,73,74,69,6f,6e,20,45,63,6f,6e,f3,6d,69,63,61,20,6f,20,46,61,63,74,75,72,61,63,69;This is the telling part. The 0xF3 is not legal in UTF8. Actually, the code units for ó, U+00F3 Latin small letter o with acute, are C3 B3. So instead of f3 you should have expected c3,b3 from the dump output.
>
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>
ACP according to my windows registry is 1252. OEMCP is 437Also, if you use database clients in console mode (such as sqlplus), NLS_LANG should include .US8PC437 to properly indicate that code page in use is 437.

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There is a forum dedicated to SQL Developer, which is monitored by members of the product dev team. You should consider posting your question there. [Link to forum|http://forums.oracle.com/forums/forum.jspa?forumID=260].
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Edited by: BigAdmin on 08.10.2009 0:39

Userenv('LANG') in SQL developer ver 1.2

Hi.
Does updating the sqldeveloper.conf file with the following still work in Ver 1.2?
AddVMOption -Duser.language=en
AddVMOption -Duser.region=US
I'm running WinXP SP2. SQL Developer 1.2.0 Build MAIN-29.98.
Mine still returns 'GB'.
Thanks.
Paul

With both 1.1 and 1.2, the NLS Parameters in the preferences (Tools -> Preferences -> Database -> NLS Parameters) would be overriding the JVM options. I think on making each connection the NLS Parameters are used to generate a series of "alter session set nls_date_format=..." type statements.
The NLS Parameter equivalents to the AddVMOption calls you listed would be:
Language=AMERICAN
Territory=AMERICA

SQL Developer Ignoring NLS Preferences

I'm having and issue with SQL Developer Version 3.2.20.09 where my settings in the NLS Date and Time preferences are not being used for the nls_session_parameters.
I've changed the default Date Format to RRRR-MM-DD HH24:MM:SS in the preferences, but when I start new sessions the format remains the default set of DD-MON-RR as verified when I run
SELECT *
FROM nls_session_parameters
If I run
alter session set NLS_DATE_FORMAT = 'RRRR-MM-DD HH24:MM:SS'
I can get the information to display the way I want it to, but it resets every time I start a new session.

Hi,
change your settings from RRRR-MM-DD HH24:MM:SS to RRRR-MM-DD HH24:Mi:SS and see
Regards
Yoonas

Does SQL Developer has login.sql script where I can put all the env SQLs?

Hello community,
Please help me out with a simple question.
Each time I start SQL Developer (3.1) and connect to a database I need to run:
alter session set nls_date_format='YYYY.MM.DD HH24:MI:SS';
to set data fields format to reflect hours, minutes and seconds.
Can I automate it? I use login.sql in SQL Plus tro setup environment including data formant .
How to do it in SQL Dev?
Thank you in advance,
Yury

Hi Yury,
You have a choice:
1. Specify the login script via Tools|Preferences|Database|Filename for the connection startup script.
2. Specify the value of nls_date_format directly via Tools|Preferences|NLS|Date Format (and perhaps additionally the Timestamp formats).
Recall that not all SQL*Plus commands are supported by Worksheet, but alter session does in fact work just fine.
Regards,
Gary
SQL Developer Team

Nls_date_format in SQL Developer

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