territory=ll_CC

Function

When creating or upgrading a database, use this attribute to associate a non-default territory with the database. Setting the territory attribute overrides the default system territory for that database. The default system territory is found using java.util.Locale.getDefault().

Specify a territory in the form ll_CC, where ll is the two letter language code, and CC is the two letter country code.

Language codes consist of a pair of lower case letters that conform to ISO-639.
Table 1. Sample Language Codes
Language Code Description
de German
en English
es Spanish
ja Japanese

To see a full list of ISO-639 codes, go to http://www.ics.uci.edu/pub/ietf/http/related/iso639.txt.

Country codes consist of two uppercase letters that conform to ISO-3166.
Table 1. Sample Country Codes
Country Code Description
DE Germany
US United States
ES Spain
MX Mexico
JP Japan

A copy of ISO-3166 can be found at http://www.chemie.fu-berlin.de/diverse/doc/ISO_3166.html.

Combining with other attributes

The territory attribute is used only when creating a database.

In the following example, the new database has a territory of Spanish language and Mexican nationality.

jdbc:derby:MexicanDB;create=true;territory=es_MX
Related reference
bootPassword=key
create=true
createFrom=Path
databaseName=nameofDatabase
dataEncryption=true
encryptionKey=<key>
encryptionProvider=providerName
encryptionAlgorithm=algorithm
logDevice=logDirectoryPath
newEncryptionKey= <key>
newBootPassword = <new password>
password=userPassword
restoreFrom=Path
rollForwardRecoveryFrom=Path
shutdown=true
user=userName
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