ORA-31693 ORA-29913 ORA-29400 ORA-39786 Mismatch in Number of Columns After Export and Before Import (Doc ID 435193.1)

Last updated on NOVEMBER 28, 2016

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 10.2.0.3 to 10.2.0.5 [Release 10.2]
Information in this document applies to any platform.
***Checked for relevance on 18-Dec-2014***

Symptoms

When importing data using DataPump (impdp) into a table which was modified by adding a column the following errors are generated:

ORA-31693: Table data object "<>"."<>" failed to load/unload and is being skipped due to error:
ORA-29913: error in executing ODCIEXTTABLEOPEN callout
ORA-29400: data cartridge error
ORA-39786: Number of columns does not match between export and import databases

Cause

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