My suggestion would be to set it on both sides the same... some app servers are a bit twitchy when it comes to NLS_LANG. hth Alan.- On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 11:18 AM, Jeffrey Beckstrom <JBECKSTROM@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > I am installing a third-party web application and the vendor is telling > me to set NLS_LANG on the database server. From what I have read on MOS, > NLS_LANG is a client side setting and thus should be on the web server. > > Can someone confirm my reasoning that this belongs on the web server and > not the database server? > > Jeffrey Beckstrom > Database Administrator > Greater Cleveland Regional Transit Authority > 1240 W. 6th Street > Cleveland, Ohio 44113 >