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SQLLDR Wrongly Calculates The Field Length Based On Timestamp Format Mask (Doc ID 1317487.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 25, 2019

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 10.1.0.2 to 11.2.0.4 [Release 10.1 to 11.2]
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Cloud Machine - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

You loaded data into a table with a column TIMESTAMP(6) and observed that the last digit from fractional part of seconds is lost (zeroed).

Let's follow the next example that demonstrates this:

=> The last digit in fractional part of seconds "429675" is zeroed ("429670").

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Cause

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