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Sanity Check of Oracle NUMBERS, How to Find and Patch Invalid Numeric Data (Doc ID 136620.1)

Last updated on NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 6.0.0.0 and later
Oracle Database Configuration Assistant - Version 8.1.7 and later
Enterprise Manager for Oracle Database - Version 8.1.7.4 and later
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Purpose

PURPOSE

  To share a method of analyzing tables and detecting invalid numeric data.

Scope

SCOPE & APPLICATION

  Sometimes, doing calculations with numbers stored in an Oracle database you 
  may receive errors like:
      ORA-27103: internal error 
  along with 
      ORA-00472: PMON process terminated with error 
  or one or more of the following:
      ORA-00447: fatal error in background process
      ORA-03113: end-of-file on communication channel
      ORA-07445: exception encountered: core dump [%s] [%s]
  for very specific number values.  

  In some cases the database can crash.

  This can happen if you have invalid numeric data in your data base.

  There are many ways this invalid data can be inserted into your database, 
  such as using a non-Oracle tool or using OCI in a C progam. Events can be 
  set to prevent this from occurring, see Note 979657.8

  This bulletin shows one way to find and patch invalid numeric data in the 
  database. It does not find all the possible invalid data, bug it can be of 
  help in the time-consuming and arduous work of uncovering such corruptions.

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