Oracle Alter Session not working in CF9

Question

Hello,
I'm trying to understand differences between CF5 and CF9 when I retrieve numbers and dates from an Oracle Database.
The code I ran on CF5 and CF9 servers :
<cfoutput>
<cftransaction>
<cfquery datasource="intranet">
alter session SET NLS_TERRITORY =  FRANCE
</cfquery>
<cfquery name="qry" datasource="intranet">
select
     TO_NUMBER(12345/10) as nbr,
     sysdate as dt,
     TO_CHAR(1234.56,'L99G999D99') as cur
from dual
</cfquery>
</cftransaction>
#qry.nbr#<br>
#qry.dt#<br>
#qry.cur#
</cfoutput>
I've got those outputs :
Result in CF5
Result in CF9
1234,5
01/12/09
¿1.234,56
1234.5
2009-12-01 19:16:04.0
¿1.234,56
The first two rows in CF5 display data in French format. That's not the same for CF9, the data are in American format.
Then I changed the NLS_TERRITORY parameter
alter session SET NLS_TERRITORY =  AMERICA
Result in CF5
Result in CF9
1234.5
01-DEC-09
$1,234.56
1234.5
2009-12-01 19:20:39.0
$1,234.56
The two first row haven't changed in CF9, it seems that the "alter session" has no effect on number and date format in query results. Is that a bug or am I misunderstanding something ?
Regards,
Maxime

Answer 1

Thank you for your reply.
I tried what you've suggested on the CF9 server.
The results are :
NLS_TERRITORY =
1) oracle JDBC database
2) oracle JDBC thin client
3) oracle JDBC-ODBC bridge
AMERICA
1234.5
2009-12-02 13:24:30.0
$1,234.56
1234.5
{ts '2009-12-02 00:00:00'}
$1,234.56
1234.5
2009-12-02 13:24:30.0
$1,234.56
FRANCE
1234.5
2009-12-02 13:29:53.0
¿1.234,56
1234.5
{ts '2009-12-02 00:00:00'}
¿1.234,56
1234.5
2009-12-02 13:29:53.0
¿1.234,56
The behavior is pretty much the same in the three differents ways to call the database. The only difference is on the date display using the Oracle JDBC thin client, which is another format from those I've already got.
Regards,
Maxime