Implicit conversion of "TEXT" to "VARCHAR"
Running jdk1.6.0_12, Linux RHE, Sybase 12.5 and connection with jconn3.jar
Have a table with a column of type varchar(50)
Was able to isolate the problem to this column, as the SQLException was thrown from the line "stmt.setString("@<colname>", <value>);"
In doing ~14,000 individual inserts in 30 min I had two Exceptions thrown (Implicit conversion of "TEXT" to "VARCHAR" is not allowed), both at the same place and both repeatable. I put a print statement in the catch block and found that both were inserting the same 6 character string.
Ran all the docs several times more and got the same number of failures on the same files.
Querying the database I found that I had almost 5,000 other insert of the same string which were sucessful.
Not able to identify what was different about the two failures, no unprintable characters, etc.
Is this a JDBC issue or Sybase?
What are the reasons that would cause this exception to be thrown when inserting 6 characters into a hole for 50?
other ideas?
Edited by: jjones3566 on Feb 17, 2009 10:50 AM
jjones3566 wrote:
Running jdk1.6.0_12, Linux RHE, Sybase 12.5 and connection with jconn3.jar
Have a table with a column of type varchar(50)
Was able to isolate the problem to this column, as the SQLException was thrown from the line "stmt.setString("@<colname>", <value>);"
In doing ~14,000 individual inserts in 30 min I had two Exceptions thrown (Implicit conversion of "TEXT" to "VARCHAR" is not allowed), both at the same place and both repeatable. I put a print statement in the catch block and found that both were inserting the same 6 character string.
Ran all the docs several times more and got the same number of failures on the same files.
Querying the database I found that I had almost 5,000 other insert of the same string which were sucessful.That could an invalid assumption. The fact that they displayed the same does not make them the same.
You would need to print the integer value of each character to insure they are the same.
You should do that starting with the source and NOT what is in the database.
If different then that is the source of the problem.
If the same then it is probably just a bug in the driver/database which you are stuck with. Various solutions would be to try a conversion (format the SQL to take a text and convert to varchar) or trying playing with the commit level (commit 50 versus 5000 or whatever.)
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