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DataPump Fails With Error ORA-39779 While Importing The Staging Table (Doc ID 1420830.1)

Last updated on MAY 17, 2021

Applies to:

Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Exadata Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Backup Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 10.2.0.5 to 11.2.0.1 [Release 10.2 to 11.2]
Information in this document applies to any platform.

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Symptoms

 You try to move the staging table (STS) using the DataPump export/import and during the import execution the following error is raised:

ORA-31693: Table data object "<SCHEMA_NAME>"."<STAGING_TABLE_NAME>" failed to load/unload and is being skipped due to error:
ORA-02354: error in exporting/importing data
ORA-39779: type "<SCHEMA>"."<TYPE_NAME>" not found or conversion to latest version is not possible


The example below shows the issue:


Note: The import runs successfully with the same test case, when source database is 11.2.0.2 created with NLS_LENGTH_SEMANTICS=CHAR and target database is 11.2.0.2.

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Cause

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