ORA-12741: Express Instant Client: unsupported server character set LV8PC8L

How Can I connect to database???
I've setup a 10g XE on trustix linux 3.0.5
Compiled oci8 and pdo_oci
I'm trying to connect to windows database running an old Oracle 8.1 database
Any ideas how i can read data from that database - WITHOUT MODIFYING IT ?

I'm not clear how you're connecting but this error could mean that you don't have transalations for Latvian Version IBM-PC Code Page 866 8-bit Latin/Cyrillic (LV8PC8LR). If that's the case it masquerades as the error when the underlying error can't be rendered in the language. This is my best guess.

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ORA-12709: error while loading create database character set

I installed Oracle 8.05 on Linux successfully: was able to login
whith SQLPlus, start and stop the db whith svrmgrl etc.
During this install I chose WE8ISO8859P9 as the database
characterset when prompted.
After that I installed Oracle Application Server 3.02, and now
I'm getting the
ORA-12709: error while loading create database character set
message when I try to start up the database, and the database
won't mount.
Platform is RedHat Linux 5.2.
NLS_LANG set to different settings,
e.g. AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8ISO8859P9
but without success.
Anyone any clue?
Thanks!
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Jogchum Reitsma (guest) wrote:
: I installed Oracle 8.05 on Linux successfully: was able to
login
: whith SQLPlus, start and stop the db whith svrmgrl etc.
: During this install I chose WE8ISO8859P9 as the database
: characterset when prompted.
: After that I installed Oracle Application Server 3.02, and now
: I'm getting the
: ORA-12709: error while loading create database character set
: message when I try to start up the database, and the database
: won't mount.
: Platform is RedHat Linux 5.2.
: NLS_LANG set to different settings,
: e.g. AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8ISO8859P9
: but without success.
: Anyone any clue?
: Thanks!
You can create the database with WE8DEC character set
and to use the WE8ISO8859P9 on the client or even on Linux.
The NLS_LANG setting doesn't effect the database, but the
interface with the database. The same setting can be used in de
windows 95/98/NT registry.
null

ORA-12709: error while loading create database character set after upgrade

Dear All
i m getting ORA-12709: error while loading create database character set, After upgraded the database from 10.2.0.3 to 11.2.0.3 in ebusiness suit env.
current application version 12.0.6
please help me to resolve it.
SQL> startup;
ORACLE instance started.
Total System Global Area 1.2831E+10 bytes
Fixed Size 2171296 bytes
Variable Size 2650807904 bytes
Database Buffers 1.0133E+10 bytes
Redo Buffers 44785664 bytes
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/u01/oracle/PROD/db/teche_st/11.2.0/nls/data/9idata
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export ORACLE_HOME=/u01/oracle/PROD/db/tech_st/11.2.0
export PATH=$ORACLE_HOME/bin:$ORACLE_HOME/perl/bin:$PATH
export PERL5LIB=$ORACLE_HOME/perl/lib/5.10.0:$ORACLE_HOME/perl/site_perl/5.10.0
export ORA_NLS10=/u01/oracle/PROD/db/teche_st/11.2.0/nls/data/9idata
export ORACLE_SID=PROD
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Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.2.0.3.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options.
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Node name: proddb3.zakathouse.org
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Version: Generic_147440-19
Machine: sun4u
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timed_statistics = TRUE
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nls_territory = "america"
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nls_date_format = "DD-MON-RR"
nls_numeric_characters = ".,"
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ALTER DATABASE MOUNT
ORA-12709 signalled during: ALTER DATABASE MOUNT...

ORA-12709 signalled during: ALTER DATABASE MOUNT...Do you have any trace files generated at the time you get this error?
Please see these docs.
ORA-12709: WHILE STARTING THE DATABASE [ID 1076156.6]
Upgrading from 9i to 10gR2 Fails With ORA-12709 : Error While Loading Create Database Character Set [ID 732861.1]
Ora-12709 While Trying To Start The Database [ID 311035.1]
ORA-12709 when Mounting the Database [ID 160478.1]
How to Move From One Database Character Set to Another at the Database Level [ID 1059300.6]
Thanks,
Hussein

ORA-12514 error: Instant Client 11 connect to remote Oracle 8i

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hi everyone,
i am a .net developer and absolutelly new to oracle, its my first project that i have make oracle and .net co-operate and it's proving to be a nightmare!
i ll try and provide as much info as possible to you
we have a unix sap server with oracle 10.something on it (i can check exactly what version if that's of importance) and i am writting a .net app which accesses the oracle db and retrieve some data we need
the locale settings of the db are american_america.we8dec and i cannot temper with that machine, it is out of the question
i have made the connection to the db using just connection string info, not tns and stuff, and i have set my dev machine's nls_lang to we8dec everywhere i could find it with a 'find' in the registry
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furthermore when i connect to the db via sql developer or navicat i still get the same symbols
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user9084006 wrote:
i am a .net developer and absolutelly new to oracle, its my first project that i have make oracle and .net co-operate and it's proving to be a nightmare!Welcome. It's a brand new universe, but if you take it step by step I'm sure you'll do fine. Get someone near with Oracle dev and dba background to guide you, so you don't get stuck or go down broken roads.
we have a unix sap server with oracle 10.something on it (i can check exactly what version if that's of importance)It is of importance most of the time. Down to at least 4 positions (for example, "10g" is just a marketing label and mostly useless in a techincal context - 10.2.0.5 is more like it).
Also mention platform (unix OS) details.
and i am writting a .net app which accesses the oracle db and retrieve some data we needHow is the to-be retrieved data loaded or entered to begin?
>
the locale settings of the db are american_america.we8dec and i cannot temper with that machine, it is out of the question Please post output from:
SQL> select * from nls_database_parameters where parameter like '%CHARACTERSET';
and i have set my dev machine's nls_lang to we8dec everywhere i could find it with a 'find' in the registryDoes your dev (client) machine use a "we8dec" character set? Likely, as you seem to be on Windows, you should have set nls_lang client char set part to match win-1252 or whatever client char set (code page) is in use.
however my app displays the data (which is in greek) showing random symbols that obviously make to senseNo surprise since DEC character set does not have a greek character in its repertoire. If I'm not all mistaken DEC MCS (or similar) is the charcter set to which WE8DEC corresponds. You could check against mapping table in Locale builder, but available characters should be per following link or close enough.
http://czyborra.com/charsets/iso8859.html#ISO-8859-1 (second chart is DEC-MCS)
Please provide a sample of those "random symbols".
furthermore when i connect to the db via sql developer or navicat i still get the same symbolsIf that's Oracle SQL Developer it should give a true picture of what's actually stored - which, unfortuantely, seem to be invalid character data.
i understand it is something to do with my client system's settings but i cant work it out See above. But even if you correctly setup client environment, the db won't be able to store the data if databas character set is in fact WE8DEC.
>
i would really appreciate your help i am sorry if it is something very simple but i just cant find it I'm not sure, but it would seem as you have been given unfeasible conditions to work from. So maybe it's not up to you, until a character set migration has been taken place.
In general, the Database character set should be a suitable superset (repertoire) that covers all current (and hopefully future) language alphabets requirements.
You might want to search forum for 'we8dec' to find previous related discussions.
Edit:
- Added url with DEC MCS.
- platform info
Edited by: orafad on Jan 26, 2012 12:28 PM
Edited by: orafad on Jan 26, 2012 12:43 PM

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## "Export done in US7ASCII character set and AL16UTF16 NCHAR character set
## server uses AL32UTF8 character set (possible charset conversion)"
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-- Sergiusz

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Here are my tips concerning environment variables:
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2. set your PATH to point to your instant client
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5. set your ORACLE_HOME to your instant client
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hrrmmm ... a year later and I'm having exactly the same problems. Anybody have a solution to this one? It looks like the driver proxy that was installed cannot find some dependent DLLs, but that's just me guessing.
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"Could not load the setup or translator library"
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Import error due to character set difference?

hi,
hoping anyone to explain reason for the following import error.
here's the situation,
- export client used WE8MSWIN1252 charset (release v10.02.01)
- import server used WE8ISO8859P1 charset (release v10.1.0.4)
all tables appeared to be imported without error, except that import terminated unsuccesfully due to oracle error 2248
"ALTER SESSION SET PLSQL_OPTIMIZE_LEVEL =1 NLS-LENGTH_SEMANTICS = 'BYTE' PLSQL_CODE_TYPE = 'INTERPRETED' PLSQL_DEBUG = FALSE PLSQL_WARNING = 'DISABLE:ALL' PLSQL_CCFLAGS =''"
ORA-02248: invalid option for ALTER SESSION
was error due to the difference release version? char set conversion to non superset?
appreciate any help pls

It is difficult to say what is the current state of the database, so it is recommended to reexport and reimport the object definitions. You may miss some other stuff like object types, contraints, etc. Table data should be OK, so reexport should not include data.
As far as character sets are concerned, because of the difference between the export client character set and the import server character set, you may have lost some characters in the code range 0x80-0x9f. This includes Euro sign, TM, sign, "smart" quotes, en- and em-dash, etc. Use the Windows charmap.exe to see all the codes. If you have some of these codes in the source database, you have lost them on import (they got converted to the reverse quotation mark code 0xbf).
-- Sergiusz

How to change the Character Set from AL32UTF8 to WE8DEC

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I want to know how to change the character set in the database from AL32UTF8 to WE8DEC.
I tried to use the comand ALTER DATABASE CHARACTER SET but I got an error because WE8DEC is not a superset of AL32UTF8.
I need to import tables from a server that uses WE8DEC. So when I do the import to my server, wich has AL32UTF8 , I can't import the rows that include an Ñ.
So I want to change the caracter set to WE8DEC. How can I do it?
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When you export from WE8DEC server what did you use
for NLS_LANG char set? And when importing?
The export was done in another computer because I can't do the export in the server (I have 10g, and the remote server has 9i and the export is not working). In my server, when I tried to do the import, the NS_LANG value was MEXICAN SPANISH_MEXICO.WE8MSWIN1252.
When I try to import to my database I got the error:
import done in WE8DEC character set and AL16UTF16 NCHAR character set
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export client uses WE8MSWIN1252 character set (possible charset conversion)
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IMP-00019: row rejected due to ORACLE error 12899
IMP-00003: ORACLE error 12899 encountered
ORA-12899: value too large for column "PRIMARIZACION"."CHG_FONDOS_MARZO_CD_MOR".
"NOMBRE" (actual: 41, maximum: 40)
Column 1 16623436
Column 2
Column 3 Pymes_1
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Character set change? Help!

Hi,
I am doing imports and the export client uses ZHS16GBK character set (simplified chinese) and my imports are done in
US7ASCII which is not a super set of the aforementioned character set. I want to change to ZHS32GB18030 which is a super set
of US7ASCII and ZHS16GBK. Is it possible to change my character set in sql plus?
Also could this character conversion cause an IMP-00008 error (unrecognized statement in export file)?
-Ashley

This one my logs. It has the error ORA 942, this is an error that I have found in most of my files that I am importing:
Connected to: Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.4.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options
Export file created by EXPORT:V10.01.00 via conventional path
Warning: the objects were exported by SMARTGPS2006, not by you
import done in US7ASCII character set and AL16UTF16 NCHAR character set
import server uses AL32UTF8 character set (possible charset conversion)
export client uses ZHS16GBK character set (possible charset conversion)
export server uses UTF8 NCHAR character set (possible ncharset conversion)
. importing SMARTGPS2006's objects into RPI
. . importing partition "MCC_ASYN_POS":"MCC_ASYN_POS200706" 0 rows imported
. . importing partition "MCC_ASYN_POS":"MCC_ASYN_POS200802" 0 rows imported
. . importing partition "MCC_ASYN_POS":"MCC_ASYN_POS200803" 0 rows imported
. . importing partition "MCC_ASYN_POS":"MCC_ASYN_POS200804" 0 rows imported
. . importing partition "MCC_ASYN_POS":"MCC_ASYN_POS200903" 22939070 rows imported
. . importing partition "MCC_ASYN_POS":"MCC_ASYN_POS200904" 0 rows imported
. . importing partition "MCC_ASYN_POS":"MCC_ASYN_POS200905" 0 rows imported
. . importing partition "MCC_ASYN_POS":"MCC_ASYN_POS200906" 0 rows imported
. . importing partition "MCC_ASYN_POS":"MCC_ASYN_POS200907" 0 rows imported
IMP-00017: following statement failed with ORACLE error 942:
"ALTER TABLE "MCC_ASYN_POS" ADD CONSTRAINT "MCC_ASYN_POS_OEMCODE_NEW" FOREIG"
"N KEY ("OEMCODE") REFERENCES "OEM" ("OEMCODE") ENABLE NOVALIDATE"
IMP-00003: ORACLE error 942 encountered
ORA-00942: table or view does not exist
About to enable constraints...
Import terminated successfully with warnings.
From doing research I have found that IMP-00008 is because the file is corrupt. Is this always the case?
Also, you said there errors would not be because of a character set conversion issue, does that mean I do need to change my character set?
Ashley

Migrate character set

I try to imp dmp file from oracle 9i to oracle 10g xe but it comes with this error msg
Export file created by EXPORT:V09.02.00 via direct path
import done in WE8MSWIN1252 character set and AL16UTF16 NCHAR character set
import server uses AL32UTF8 character set (possible charset conversion)
export client uses US7ASCII character set (possible charset conversion)
IMP-00031: Must specify FULL=Y or provide FROMUSER/TOUSER or TABLES arguments
IMP-00000: Import terminated unsuccessfully
Is it dmp file was done using ascii rather than binary mode?
Do I have to migrate the character set from US7ASCII to WE8MSWIN1252? or any other idea?

user9520098 wrote:
Hello, I have the same problem.
I have an oracle 10g and I would like to transfert my data in Oracle XE database (Os Linux Opensuse and univ version for XE).
My database 10g, have charset US7ASCII and my database XE, AL32UTF8.
When I transfert data, I have error ORA-12899 insert value too long for column.
Could you help me ?
ThanksThat's because US7ASCII is single byte character set and AL32UTF8 is multiple bytes CS. One char in AL32UTF8 could result more than one byte of storage.
You have few options,
1. migration your 10g database to AL32UTF8 CS. It will also benefit in the long run.
2. dump out create table statement from XE dump file. change all CHAR/VARCHAR type to NCHAR/NVARCHAR type and prerun the script to create new tables in 10g. This should take care of the column issue for this time.

Customising character sets

We are trying to migrate to an oracle 8.1.7 database with UTF8 as database character set. A lot of the clients (windows) will still be using a company-specific character set, so there was an need to define/compile/install this character set in the NLS directory of oracle using .nlt files and the lxinst utility.
While was trying to do this, a some questions emerged that where not addressed in the oracle documentation for NLS and Globalisation.
The custom character set is based on the US-ASCII character set, so I thought to use
base_char_set = US7ASCII
and define the other characters starting from 0x80 and ending with 0xff
-     but when I tried to compile this charset on AIX (server side) it gave a lot of warnings:
LXI-WARN-00510: In lx22712.nlt at line 88, unicode 0x300 out of private use range
LXI-WARN-00512: In lx22712.nlt at line 88, character 0x80 is remapped
LXI-WARN-00510: In lx22712.nlt at line 89, unicode 0x302 out of private use range
LXI-WARN-00512: In lx22712.nlt at line 89, character 0x81 is remapped
-     when I tried to compile this on windows 2000 (client side) lxinst generates an application error
Because this base_char_set definition did not work (or I made a mistake), I left it out of the definition file, and I mapped the characters using:
character_data = {
0x00 - 0x7f : 0x0000 - 0x007f,
this compiles fine on both platforms. But this means that I have to fill in the classification list, the upper-to-lower and lower-to-upper relationships for all these characters, so it would be a lot easier if this base_char_set worked.
other questions:
-     About the character classification list:
can such a list contain more than 2 classifications? For example
0xC0 = {LETTER, UPPER, PRINTABLE}
what are exactly the differences between those classifications? (for example can a character be a LETTER but not PRINTABLE)
-     What about combining characters: in most character sets (also in ours) a combining character precedes the character it will be combined with, in a string. In Unicode the combining character comes after the character it will be combined with. When oracle converts strings between two such charsets, will the combining characters be handled according to the character set it is converting to, or will the order of characters in the string stay the same?
--Janick

Thanks for the help,
the reason for needing a customised character set is not because of a special input device. Our current client uses this character set (not a standard) to support scripts for different languages. Since we want future clients to use the unicode standard, and want to support more scripts in the future, we are migrating our DB to UTF8, but our old clients should still be able to connect and query the DB (for now).
I cannot find this developers version of the OLB. In
Oracle Technology Network > Software >
there is no entry in the drop down boxes for this (or am I looking in the wrong place?)
thank you a lot for the help,
regards,
--Janick

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