FRM-41735 + ORA-12899

Thrz an application running in forms 6i in our office.....its been workin fine since 2-3 year ..but today ...when i used the form... i.e entered the particular number to select my data
i get this error
FRM-41734 KEYNXT attempt trigger raised unhandled exception ORA-12899
How to over come this error!!!???

Sounds like you have a field in your form that is set smaller than the data precision of the column in the table. The ORA-12899 is a "value too large for column string" error. Is it possible that someone altered the table to increase the size of a column?
Craig...

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ORA-12899 error from function invoked from SQL*Loader

I am getting the above error when I call a function from my SQL*Loader script, and I am not seeing what the problem is. As far as I can see, there should be no problem with the field lengths, unless the length of the automatic variable within my function is somehow being set at 30? Here are the details (in the SQL*Loader script, the field of interest is the last one):
====
Error:
====
Record 1: Rejected - Error on table TESTM8.LET_DRIVE_IN_FCLTY, column DIF_CSA_ID.
ORA-12899: value too large for column "TESTM8"."LET_DRIVE_IN_FCLTY"."DIF_CSA_ID" (actual: 30, maximum: 16)
=======
Function:
=======
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION find_MCO_id (di_oid_in DECIMAL)
RETURN CHAR IS mco_id CHAR;
BEGIN
SELECT AOL_MCO_LOC_CD INTO mco_id
FROM CONV_DI_FLCTY
WHERE DIF_INST_ELMNT_OID = di_oid_in;
RETURN TRIM(mco_id);
END;
==============
SQL*Loader Script:
==============
LOAD DATA
INFILE 'LET_DRIVE_IN_FCLTY.TXT'
BADFILE 'LOGS\LET_DRIVE_IN_FCLTY_BADDATA.TXT'
DISCARDFILE 'LOGS\LET_DRIVE_IN_FCLTY_DISCARDDATA.TXT'
REPLACE
INTO TABLE TESTM8.LET_DRIVE_IN_FCLTY
FIELDS TERMINATED BY '~' OPTIONALLY ENCLOSED BY '"'
DIF_DRIVE_IN_OID DECIMAL EXTERNAL,
DIF_FCLTY_TYPE_OID DECIMAL EXTERNAL NULLIF DIF_FCLTY_TYPE_OID = 'NULL',
DIF_INST_ELMNT_OID DECIMAL EXTERNAL,
DIF_PRI_PERSON_OID DECIMAL EXTERNAL NULLIF DIF_PRI_PERSON_OID = 'NULL',
DIF_SEC_PERSON_OID DECIMAL EXTERNAL NULLIF DIF_SEC_PERSON_OID = 'NULL',
DIF_CREATE_TS TIMESTAMP "yyyy-mm-dd-hh24.mi.ss.ff6",
DIF_LAST_UPDATE_TS TIMESTAMP "yyyy-mm-dd-hh24.mi.ss.ff6",
DIF_ADP_ID CHAR NULLIF DIF_ADP_ID = 'NULL',
DIF_CAT_CLAIMS_IND CHAR,
DIF_CAT_DIF_IND CHAR,
DIF_DAYLT_SAVE_IND CHAR,
DIF_OPEN_PT_TM_IND CHAR,
DIF_CSA_ID CONSTANT "find_MCO_id(:DIF_DRIVE_IN_OID)"
============
Table Definitions:
============
SQL> describe CONV_DI_FLCTY;
Name Null? Type
DIF_INST_ELMNT_OID NOT NULL NUMBER(18)
AOL_MCO_LOC_CD NOT NULL VARCHAR2(3)
SQL> describe LET_DRIVE_IN_FCLTY;
Name Null? Type
DIF_DRIVE_IN_OID NOT NULL NUMBER(18)
DIF_INST_ELMNT_OID NOT NULL NUMBER(18)
DIF_FCLTY_TYPE_OID NUMBER(18)
DIF_ADP_ID VARCHAR2(10)
DIF_CAT_DIF_IND NOT NULL VARCHAR2(1)
DIF_CAT_CLAIMS_IND NOT NULL VARCHAR2(1)
DIF_CSA_ID VARCHAR2(16)
DIF_DAYLT_SAVE_IND NOT NULL VARCHAR2(1)
DIF_ORG_ENTY_ID VARCHAR2(16)
DIF_OPEN_PT_TM_IND NOT NULL VARCHAR2(1)
DIF_CREATE_TS NOT NULL DATE
DIF_LAST_UPDATE_TS NOT NULL DATE
DIF_ITM_FCL_MKT_ID NUMBER(18)
DIF_PRI_PERSON_OID NUMBER(18)
DIF_SEC_PERSON_OID NUMBER(18)
=========================
Thanks for any help with this one!

I changed one line of the function to:
RETURN CHAR IS mco_id VARCHAR2(16);
But I still get the same error:
ORA-12899: value too large for column "TESTM8"."LET_DRIVE_IN_FCLTY"."DIF_CSA_ID" (actual: 30, maximum: 16)
I just am not seeing what is being defined as 30 characters. Any ideas much appreciated!

SQL Error: ORA-12899: value too large for column

Hi,
I'm trying to understand the above error. It occurs when we are migrating data from one oracle database to another:
Error report:
SQL Error: ORA-12899: value too large for column "USER_XYZ"."TAB_XYZ"."COL_XYZ" (actual: 10, maximum: 8)
12899. 00000 - "value too large for column %s (actual: %s, maximum: %s)"
*Cause:    An attempt was made to insert or update a column with a value
which is too wide for the width of the destination column.
The name of the column is given, along with the actual width
of the value, and the maximum allowed width of the column.
Note that widths are reported in characters if character length
semantics are in effect for the column, otherwise widths are
reported in bytes.
*Action:   Examine the SQL statement for correctness. Check source
and destination column data types.
Either make the destination column wider, or use a subset
of the source column (i.e. use substring).
The source database runs - Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.7.0 - 64bit Production
The target database runs - Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.2.0 - 64bit Production
The source and target table are identical and the column definitions are exactly the same. The column we get the error on is of CHAR(8). To migrate the data we use either a dblink or oracle datapump, both result in the same error. The data in the column is a fixed length string of 8 characters.
To resolve the error the column "COL_XYZ" gets widened by:
alter table TAB_XYZ modify (COL_XYZ varchar2(10));
-alter table TAB_XYZ succeeded.
We now move the data from the source into the target table without problem and then run:
select max(length(COL_XYZ)) from TAB_XYZ;
-8
So the maximal string length for this column is 8 characters. To reduce the column width back to its original 8, we then run:
alter table TAB_XYZ modify (COL_XYZ varchar2(8));
-Error report:
SQL Error: ORA-01441: cannot decrease column length because some value is too big
01441. 00000 - "cannot decrease column length because some value is too big"
*Cause:
*Action:
So we leave the column width at 10, but the curious thing is - once we have the data in the target table, we can then truncate the same table at source (ie. get rid of all the data) and move the data back in the original table (with COL_XYZ set at CHAR(8)) - without any issue.
My guess the error has something to do with the storage on the target database, but I would like to understand why. If anybody has an idea or suggestion what to look for - much appreciated.
Cheers.

843217 wrote:
Note that widths are reported in characters if character length
semantics are in effect for the column, otherwise widths are
reported in bytes.You are looking at character lengths vs byte lengths.
The data in the column is a fixed length string of 8 characters.
select max(length(COL_XYZ)) from TAB_XYZ;
-8
So the maximal string length for this column is 8 characters. To reduce the column width back to its original 8, we then run:
alter table TAB_XYZ modify (COL_XYZ varchar2(8));varchar2(8 byte) or varchar2(8 char)?
Use SQL Reference for datatype specification, length function, etc.
For more info, reference {forum:id=50} forum on the topic. And of course, the Globalization support guide.

Fdpstp failed due to ora-12899 value too large for column

Hi All,
User facing this problem while running the concurrent program.
the program is complted but with rhis error.
fdpstp failed due to ora-12899 value too large for column
Can any one tell me the excat solution for this?
RDBMS : 10.2.0.3.0
Oracle Applications : 11.5.10.2

User facing this problem while running the concurrent program.
the program is complted but with rhis error.Is this a seeded or custom concurrent program?
fdpstp failed due to ora-12899 value too large for column
Can any one tell me the excat solution for this?Was this working before? If yes, any changes been done recently?
Can other users run the same concurrent program with no issues?
Please post the contents of the concurrent request log file here.
Please ask your developer to open the file using Reports Builder and compile the report and run it (if possible) with the same parameters.
OERR: ORA-12899 value too large for column %s (actual: %s, maximum: %s) [ID 287754.1]
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I am getting error "ORA-12899: value too large for column".

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Field is updating only through trigger with hard coded value.
This happens randomly not everytime.
select * from v$version
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.4.0 - 64bi
PL/SQL Release 10.2.0.4.0 - Production
CORE     10.2.0.4.0     Production
TNS for Linux: Version 10.2.0.4.0 - Production
NLSRTL Version 10.2.0.4.0 - Production
Table Structure
desc customer
Name Null? Type
CTRY_CODE NOT NULL CHAR(3 Byte)
CO_CODE NOT NULL CHAR(3 Byte)
CUST_NBR NOT NULL NUMBER(10)
CUST_NAME CHAR(40 Byte)
RECORD_STATUS CHAR(1 Byte)
Trigger on the table
CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER CUST_INSUPD
BEFORE INSERT OR UPDATE
ON CUSTOMER FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN
IF INSERTING THEN
:NEW.RECORD_STATUS := 'I';
ELSIF UPDATING THEN
:NEW.RECORD_STATUS := 'U';
END IF;
END;
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01001: invalid cursor
ORA-06512: at "UPDATE_CUSTOMER", line 1320
ORA-12899: value too large for column "CUSTOMER"."RECORD_STATUS" (actual: 3,
maximum: 1)
ORA-06512: at line 1
Edited by: user4211491 on Nov 25, 2009 9:30 PM
Edited by: user4211491 on Nov 25, 2009 9:32 PM

SQL> create table customer(
2 CTRY_CODE CHAR(3 Byte) not null,
3 CO_CODE CHAR(3 Byte) not null,
4 CUST_NBR NUMBER(10) not null,
5 CUST_NAME CHAR(40 Byte) ,
6 RECORD_STATUS CHAR(1 Byte)
7 );
Table created.
SQL> CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER CUST_INSUPD
2 BEFORE INSERT OR UPDATE
3 ON CUSTOMER FOR EACH ROW
4 BEGIN
5 IF INSERTING THEN
6 :NEW.RECORD_STATUS := 'I';
7 ELSIF UPDATING THEN
8 :NEW.RECORD_STATUS := 'U';
9 END IF;
10 END;
11 /
Trigger created.
SQL> insert into customer(CTRY_CODE,CO_CODE,CUST_NBR,CUST_NAME,RECORD_STATUS)
2                values('12','13','1','Mahesh Kaila','UPD');
              values('12','13','1','Mahesh Kaila','UPD')
ERROR at line 2:
ORA-12899: value too large for column "HPVPPM"."CUSTOMER"."RECORD_STATUS"
(actual: 3, maximum: 1)
SQL> insert into customer(CTRY_CODE,CO_CODE,CUST_NBR,CUST_NAME)
2                values('12','13','1','Mahesh Kaila');
1 row created.
SQL> set linesize 200
SQL> select * from customer;
CTR CO_   CUST_NBR CUST_NAME                                R
12 13           1 Mahesh Kaila                             I
SQL> update customer set cust_name='tst';
1 row updated.
SQL> select * from customer;
CTR CO_   CUST_NBR CUST_NAME                                R
12 13           1 tst                                      Urecheck your code once again..somewhere you are using record_status column for insertion or updation.
Ravi Kumar

Install fails due to ORA-12899: value too large for column

Hi,
Our WCS 11g installation on Tomcat 7 fails giving a "ORA-12899: value too large for column".
As per the solution ticket https://support.oracle.com/epmos/faces/DocumentDisplay?id=1539055.1 we have to set "-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8" in tomcat.
We have done this beforehand by setting the variable in catalina.bat in tomcat 7 bin as shown below
But still we get the same error while installation.
If anybody has faced this , let us know how you resolved it

We were unable to install WCS on Tomcat 7 but on Tomcat 6 by specifying "-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8" in java options using "Tomcat Configure" it was succesful.
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Different NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS in two dbs...and ORA-12899

Hi,
I have created two db instances on the same server. One with db characterset EL8MSWIN1253(single-byte characterset) , NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS=BYTE and the other with UTF8(multi-byte characterset) NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS=CHAR.
I'm trying to export a table from db1 and import to db2 ... respectively reffered above.
This table has the following definition:
SQL> CREATE TABLE TEST(A NUMBER(1) , B VARCHAR2(10));
Table created
SQL> INSERT INTO TEST VALUES(1 , 'TEST_TEST');
1 row inserted
SQL> COMMIT;
Commit complete
SQL> INSERT INTO TEST VALUES(2 , 'ΤΕΣΤ_ΤΕΣΤ');     <------------greek chars 1 row inserted
SQL> COMMIT;
Commit completeIn order to accomplish the aim....
1) I exported the table
2) I imported it without the rows - only to 'precreate' the tables
3) I imported it with rows ... but error ORA-12899 (current value exceeds the max length specified) occurs....
Of course this type of error is not a suprise ...since after step 2 , when i issue the command:
SQL> DESC TEST;
Name Type              Nullable Default Comments
A    NUMBER(1)         Y
B    VARCHAR2(10 BYTE) Y                        <---------the NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS of the exported file has been used...Issuing the command
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However , is there any other way to do this .....????? (imagine that there are some hundreds/thousands of tables....to be imported in such a db)...
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Actually.. there is one ...Metalink - Note : 313175.1...
However , i tried to modify/accomplish the scenarios expressed on :
1)Metalink Note: 144808.1 (point E1 - How to go to CHAR semantics ? -> use exp/imp ) and
2)the steps described on:
http://otn.oracle.com/oramag/oracle/03-mar/o23sql.html
Have anybody accomplished it with exp/imp as described above on two dbs running different db charactrer sets(one single-byte and the other UTF8)...????
Thanks....
Sim

Rawtohex - How to Insert ? ORA-12899: value too large for column

Hi,
Can any one please help me to resolve the following issue ?
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.4.0 - 64bi
PL/SQL Release 10.2.0.4.0 - Production
Name Null? Type
ABC_OID NOT NULL RAW(8)
ABC_NAME NOT NULL VARCHAR2(30 CHAR)
UPDATE_TIME NOT NULL DATE
UPDATE_BY_WORKER_NO NOT NULL NUMBER
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insert into caps.ABC_LOOKUP values(rawtohex('FAMILY'),'FAMILY','19-FEB-09','1065449')
Insert into caps.ABC_LOOKUP values(rawtohex('CONNECTOR'),'CONNECTOR','19-FEB-09','1065449')
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-12899: value too large for column
"XYZ"."ABC_LOOKUP"."ABC_OID" (actual: 9, maximum: 8)
Thanks in Advance.....

Yes, Done...
Actually I suggested same thing to them (application), But they did not agree with me then i got confused :-)
Now the same thing worked well..Thanks a lot for your time

Java.sql.BatchUpdateException: ORA-12899[ value too large for column.......

Hi All,
I am using SOA 11g(11.1.1.3). I am trying to insert data in to a table coming from a file. I have encountered the fallowing error.
Exception occured when binding was invoked.
Exception occured during invocation of JCA binding: "JCA Binding execute of Reference operation 'insert' failed due to: DBWriteInteractionSpec Execute Failed Exception.
*insert failed. Descriptor name: [UploadStgTbl.XXXXStgTbl].*
Caused by java.sql.BatchUpdateException: ORA-12899: value too large for column "XXXX"."XXXX_STG_TBL"."XXXXXX_XXXXX_TYPE" (actual: 20, maximum: 15)
*The invoked JCA adapter raised a resource exception.*
*Please examine the above error message carefully to determine a resolution.*
The data type of the column errored out is VARCHAR2(25). I found related issue in metalink, java.sql.BatchUpdateException (ORA-12899) Reported When DB Adapter Reads a Row From a Table it is Polling For Added Rows [ID 1113215.1].
But the solution seems not applicable in my case...
Can anyone encountered same issue?? Is this a bug? If it is a bug, do we have patch for this bug??
Please help me out...
Thank you all...
Edited by: 806364 on Dec 18, 2010 12:01 PM

It didn't work.
After I changed length of that column of the source datastore (from 15 to 16), ODI created temporary tables (C$ with I$) with larger columns (16 instead of 15) but I got the same error message.
I'm wondering why I have to extend length of source datastore in the source model if there are no values in the source table with a length greather than 15....
Any other idea? Thanks !

Adding virtual column: ORA-12899: value too large for column

I'm using Oracle 11g, Win7 OS, SQL Developer
I'm trying to add virtual column to my test table, but getting ORA-12899: value too large for column error. Below are the details.
Can someone help me in this?
CREATE TABLE test_reg_exp
(col1 VARCHAR2(100));
INSERT INTO test_reg_exp (col1) VALUES ('ABCD_EFGH');
INSERT INTO test_reg_exp (col1) VALUES ('ABCDE_ABC');
INSERT INTO test_reg_exp (col1) VALUES ('WXYZ_ABCD');
INSERT INTO test_reg_exp (col1) VALUES ('ABCDE_PQRS');
INSERT INTO test_reg_exp (col1) VALUES ('ABCD_WXYZ');
ALTER TABLE test_reg_exp
ADD (col2 VARCHAR2(100) GENERATED ALWAYS AS (REGEXP_REPLACE (col1, '^ABCD[A-Z]*_')));
SQL Error: ORA-12899: value too large for column "COL2" (actual: 100, maximum: 400)
12899. 00000 - "value too large for column %s (actual: %s, maximum: %s)"
*Cause:    An attempt was made to insert or update a column with a value
           which is too wide for the width of the destination column.
           The name of the column is given, along with the actual width
           of the value, and the maximum allowed width of the column.
           Note that widths are reported in characters if character length
           semantics are in effect for the column, otherwise widths are
           reported in bytes.
*Action:   Examine the SQL statement for correctness. Check source
           and destination column data types.
           Either make the destination column wider, or use a subset
           of the source column (i.e. use substring).When I try to select, I'm getting correct results:
SELECT col1, (REGEXP_REPLACE (col1, '^ABCD[A-Z]*_'))
FROM test_reg_exp;Thanks.

Yes RP, it working if you give col2 size >=400.
@Northwest - Could you please test the same w/o having a regex clause in col2?
I doubt on the usage of a REGEX in this dynamic col case.
Refer this (might help) -- http://www.oracle-base.com/articles/11g/virtual-columns-11gr1.php
Below snippet from above link.... see if this helps...
>
Notes and restrictions on virtual columns include:
Indexes defined against virtual columns are equivalent to function-based indexes.
Virtual columns can be referenced in the WHERE clause of updates and deletes, but they cannot be manipulated by DML.
Tables containing virtual columns can still be eligible for result caching.
Functions in expressions must be deterministic at the time of table creation, but can subsequently be recompiled and made non-deterministic without invalidating the virtual column. In such cases the following steps must be taken after the function is recompiled:
Constraint on the virtual column must be disabled and re-enabled.
Indexes on the virtual column must be rebuilt.
Materialized views that access the virtual column must be fully refreshed.
The result cache must be flushed if cached queries have accessed the virtual column.
Table statistics must be regathered.
Virtual columns are not supported for index-organized, external, object, cluster, or temporary tables.
The expression used in the virtual column definition has the following restrictions:
It cannot refer to another virtual column by name.
It can only refer to columns defined in the same table.
If it refers to a deterministic user-defined function, it cannot be used as a partitioning key column.
The output of the expression must be a scalar value. It cannot return an Oracle supplied datatype, a user-defined type, or LOB or LONG RAW.
>
Edited by: ranit B on Oct 16, 2012 11:48 PM
Edited by: ranit B on Oct 16, 2012 11:54 PM

Rs.updateBoolean SQLException: ORA-12899: value too large for column

Complete error is SQLException: ORA-12899: value too large for column "SMSUSER"."PRUEBA"."VLOGIC" (actual: 4, maximum: 1)
Let's see the code:
PreparedStatement ps=null;
ResultSet rs=null;
try
ps=conn.prepareStatement("create table prueba(name varchar2(32),vlogic char(1) not null check(vlogic in (0,1)))");
ps.execute();
logger.info("Table created.");
ps=conn.prepareStatement("insert into prueba (name,vlogic) values ('user01',?)");
ps.setBoolean(1,true);
ps.executeUpdate();
logger.info("Data Inserted.");
ps=conn.prepareStatement("update prueba set vlogic=? where name=?");
ps.setBoolean(1,false);
ps.setString(2,"user01");
ps.executeUpdate();
logger.info("Data Updated.");
; Till here all runs ok, but if we try to modify vía Resulset.....
ps=conn.prepareStatement("select vlogic from prueba where name=? for update", ResultSet.TYPE_SCROLL_SENSITIVE, ResultSet.CONCUR_UPDATABLE, ResultSet.CLOSE_CURSORS_AT_COMMIT);
ps.setString(1,"user01");
rs=ps.executeQuery();
if (rs.next())
logger.info("Got record.");
rs.updateBoolean("vlogic",true);
rs.updateRow();
logger.info("Column updated.");
catch (SQLException E)
logger.info("SQLException: "+E.getMessage());
finally
closeResultSet(rs);
closePreparedStatement(ps);
The trouble is that when updating via resultset, what is going to be inserted is "true" or "false" and not "0" or "1" as with insertions and modifications via preparedStatements.
So systems returns error: SQLException: ORA-12899: value too large for column "SMSUSER"."PRUEBA"."VLOGIC" (actual: 4, maximum: 1)
Cause it is tryng to insert "true".
Can somebody tell me what's happenign here?
Thanks in advance.
Francisco Javier Ascanio Suárez.
E-mail: [email protected]

Ok, but why is this behaviour different in ResultSet statements than in Prepared Statements?
As you can see in my example, prepared statements with set boolean runs ok.
I like your "proper way", and it resolves my trouble, but it don't tells me why do I have to program a field update in different ways depending of Prepared Statements or updating resultsets.
Thanks in advance.

Imp/exp ORA-12899: value too large for column

imp/exp ORA-12899: value too large for column
source :
os: linux as 4 update4
.bash_profile NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.US7ASCII
for run exp bill/admin001 file=bill0518.dmp bill rows=y
oracle: 10.2.1
NLS_LANGUAGE AMERICAN
NLS_TERRITORY AMERICA
NLS_CHARACTERSET US7ASCII
target :
os: linux as 4 update4
.bash_profile NLS_LANG=AMERICAN_AMERICA.AL32UTF8
for run
imp bill/admin001 file=bill0518.dmp
oracle: 10.2.1
NLS_LANGUAGE AMERICAN
NLS_TERRITORY AMERICA
NLS_CHARACTERSET AL32UTF8
imp log
Import: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Wed May 16 14:57:59 2007
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Connected to: Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Produc tion
With the Partitioning, Real Application Clusters, OLAP and Data Mining options
Export file created by EXPORT:V10.02.01 via conventional path
import done in US7ASCII character set and AL16UTF16 NCHAR character set
import server uses AL32UTF8 character set (possible charset conversion)
export client uses AL32UTF8 character set (possible charset conversion)
. importing BILL's objects into BILL
. . importing table "MY_SESSION" 44 rows imported
. . importing table "T1"
IMP-00019: row rejected due to ORACLE error 12899
IMP-00003: ORACLE error 12899 encountered
ORA-12899: value too large for column "BILL"."T1"."NAME" (actual: 62, maximum: 5 0)
Column 1 1
Column 2 ÖÐ¹úÈË. 0 rows impo rted
Import terminated successfully with warnings.

Yes it's probably due to different char sets
A way around it it to change the DB setup on the new database to use CHAR as default for varchar2 rows, and then use datapump to do your import/export, because datapump uses the default varchar2 type when creating tables that includes varchar2 (which is normally byte). Exp/imp uses the varchar2 type that is in the original database
Best regards
/Klaus

Oracle : ORA-12899: value too large for column

Hi Experts,
I am loading multibyte data from fixed width flat file to Oracle database(which is a utf8 characterset) via Informatica. I have set utf8 as characterset in both source and target definitions.
Source flat file data : MÃ¼nchener(this flat file data was loaded from external oracle database where data looks like Münchener)
When I load the data I am getting below error
ORA-12899: value too large for column "schema_name"."table"."column" (actual: 513, maximum: 512)
I know we can declare the data type as varchar2(512 char) instead of varchar2(512 byte). Please let me know the other solution to load multibyte data into target utf8 database.

You answered your own question and there isn't another solution. You need to increase that column.
alter table "schema_name"."table" ("column" varchar2(513)); ---Though you should increase it to be the max length that column will ever be. If you don't know pad it. Pad it high. Oracle is very good at handling the space with the varchar2 datatype.

ORA-12899: value too large for column

Hi Experts,
I am getting data from erp systems in the form of feeds,in particular one column length in feed is 3 only.
In target table also corresponded column also length is varchar2(3)
but when i am trying to load same into db ti showing error like:
ORA-12899: value too large for column
emp_name (actual: 4, maximum: 3)
i am using data base version :
Oracle Database 11g Express Edition Release 11.2.0.2.0 - Production
but this is resolved when the time of increasing target column length to varchar2(5) from varchar2(3)..but i checked length of that column in feed is 3 only...
my question is why we need to increase the target column length?
Thanks,
Surya

>
my question is why we need to increase the target column length?
>
That can be caused if the two systems are using different character sets. If one is using a single-byte character set like ASCII and the other uses multi-byte like UTF16.
Three BYTES is three bytes but three CHAR is three bytes in ASCII but six bytes for UTF16.
Do you know what character sets are being used?
See the Database Concepts doc
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/B28359_01/server.111/b28318/datatype.htm
>
Length Semantics for Character Datatypes
Globalization support allows the use of various character sets for the character datatypes. Globalization support lets you process single-byte and multibyte character data and convert between character sets. Client sessions can use client character sets that are different from the database character set.
Consider the size of characters when you specify the column length for character datatypes. You must consider this issue when estimating space for tables with columns that contain character data.
The length semantics of character datatypes can be measured in bytes or characters.
•Byte semantics treat strings as a sequence of bytes. This is the default for character datatypes.
•Character semantics treat strings as a sequence of characters. A character is technically a codepoint of the database character set.
For single byte character sets, columns defined in character semantics are basically the same as those defined in byte semantics. Character semantics are useful for defining varying-width multibyte strings; it reduces the complexity when defining the actual length requirements for data storage. For example, in a Unicode database (UTF8), you must define a VARCHAR2 column that can store up to five Chinese characters together with five English characters. In byte semantics, this would require (5*3 bytes) + (1*5 bytes) = 20 bytes; in character semantics, the column would require 10 characters.
VARCHAR2(20 BYTE) and SUBSTRB(<string>, 1, 20) use byte semantics. VARCHAR2(10 CHAR) and SUBSTR(<string>, 1, 10) use character semantics.
The parameter NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS decides whether a new column of character datatype uses byte or character semantics. The default length semantic is byte. If all character datatype columns in a database use byte semantics (or all use character semantics) then users do not have to worry about which columns use which semantics. The BYTE and CHAR qualifiers shown earlier should be avoided when possible, because they lead to mixed-semantics databases. Instead, the NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS initialization parameter should be set appropriately in the server parameter file (SPFILE) or initialization parameter file, and columns should use the default semantics.

Java.sql.SQLException: ORA-12899

Hi All,
I am working on IDOC to JDBC scenario.We want to POst the data from SAP to Oracle Data base. So i have used the hasQuot for Date elements.http://www.sdn.sap.com/irj/scn/weblogs?blog=/pub/wlg/2002.I [original link is broken] [original link is broken] [original link is broken] am getting the below error in the receiver JDBC channel.
Message processing failed. Cause: com.sap.engine.interfaces.messaging.api.exception.MessagingException: Error processing request in sax parser: Error when executing statement for table/stored proc. XXXXXX (structure 'Statement'): java.sql.SQLException: ORA-12899: value too large for column "HRCORE_D"."HRP1007"."BEGDA" (actual: 9, maximum: 8).
In the XML i m able to see only 8 characters for BEGDA field. I have used trim function before each block in the Mapping.
<BEGDA hasQuot="No">TO_DATE('2011-08-22','yyyy-MM-dd')</BEGDA>
Please let me know the solution for this.
Thanks,
Soumya.

The error shows that you are sending the value more than declared for that date field in the table. You send the field value size more than 8 characters. You actually send 9 characters. This is purely backend error. Java trim method will remove only blank space on the leading and trailing.

FRM-41735 + ORA-12899

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