how to know the character set of an oracle databes code example

Example 1: how to know the character set of an oracle databes

select * from database_properties where PROPERTY_NAME in ('NLS_CHARACTERSET', 'NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET')

Example 2: how to know the character set of an oracle databes

SELECT * FROM nls_database_parameters WHERE PARAMETER = 'NLS_CHARACTERSET';
SELECT * FROM v$nls_parameters WHERE PARAMETER = 'NLS_CHARACTERSET';
-- NLS_CHARACTERSET for VARCHAR2, NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET for NVARCHAR2
SELECT * FROM database_properties WHERE PROPERTY_NAME
    IN ('NLS_CHARACTERSET', 'NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET');

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