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ORA-01401 / ORA-12899 / ORA-01461 While Importing Or Loading Data In An AL32UTF8 / UTF8 (Unicode) Or Other Multibyte NLS_CHARACTERSET Database. (Doc ID 1297961.1)

Last updated on AUGUST 07, 2024

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Standard Edition - Version 8.1.7.4 to 11.2.0.4 [Release 8.1.7 to 11.2]
Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 8.1.7.4 to 11.2.0.4 [Release 8.1.7 to 11.2]
Oracle Database Cloud Schema 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
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms



Import (both the old imp tool or datapump) give errors like

Cause

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In this Document
Symptoms
Changes
Cause
Solution
 A) Use Csscan to check for "Truncation" data on the source side in 8i, 9i , 10g and 11g.
 A.1) Scan the source dataset
 A.2) check the csscan results:
 B) Solving the ORA-01401 / ORA-12899 error :
References


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