Showing posts with label ORA-12716. Show all posts
Showing posts with label ORA-12716. Show all posts

Friday, 2 March 2012

ORA-12716: Cannot ALTER DATABASE CHARACTER SET when CLOB data exists

ORA-12716: Cannot ALTER DATABASE CHARACTER SET when CLOB data exists

Cause: CLOB data changes representation to Unicode when converting to a multibyte character set and must be migrated

Action: Remove CLOB data as listed in the alert file. CLOB data can be migrated by methods such as import or export