> Denham Eva wrote:
>
> Hi List,
>
> Please can anyone give me some pointers on this issue.
> We have third party app called Maximo with reports that run from
> within it.
> We are receiving an error on one of these reports.
> The Oracle error that comes out of it is
> ORA-01406 fetched column value was truncated.
> I am not sure of what exactly is happening as I don't have access to
> their source.
> However I would like to know if there is a general resolution for this
> that can be implemented on the server,
> or is it perhaps a bug?
>
> OS = Win2K SP6
> ORACLE = 8.1.7.0.0
>
> Rgds
> Denham
>
It's a bug in their application. That's what you get when, for instance,
you fetch a string of 12 characters into a variable which can accomodate
only 10. Oracle knows the size of the recipient variable, so doesn't
(normally) blows up your memory, but it issues a warning.
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