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OpenVMS: ORA-12712 When Creating A New 10.2.0.4 Database Using DBCA with AL32UTF8 Character Set (Doc ID 1096913.1)

Last updated on APRIL 16, 2024

Applies to:

Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Gen 1 Exadata Cloud at Customer (Oracle Exadata Database Cloud Machine) - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Backup Service - Version N/A and later
HP OpenVMS Itanium
HP OpenVMS Alpha

Symptoms

Running Oracle Release 10gR2 version 10.2.0.4

Using DBCA to create a new General Purpose Database (which includes seed datafiles)

When trying to establish a database with a Character set of AL32UTF8, the following error is reported in the CloneDBCreation.log and Alert log files.

   alter database character set INTERNAL_CONVERT AL32UTF8
   *
   ERROR at line 1:
   ORA-12712: new character set must be a superset of old character set

Changes

 Applied the 10.2.0.4 Patchset

Cause

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