David - I don't use Informatica. Does it maintain its own data dictionary? Is it possible the Informatica dictionary is out of sync with the Oracle dictionary? Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. dwilliams@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of thump604@xxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Friday, April 09, 2004 10:00 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: ORA-01406: fetched column value was truncated It is actualy just a select statement. If I run the statement alone, it does not error, but when run through Informatica, it generates error. SELECT S_ASGN_GRP.PR_POSTN_ID AS PR_POSTN_ID, UPPER(ITEM_COUNTRY.LO_CHAR1) AS COUNTRY, ITEM_ZIPCODE.LO_CHAR1 AS LO_ZIPCODE FROM S_ASGN_GRP, S_ASGN_RULE RULE_ZIPCODE, S_ASGN_RULE RULE_COUNTRY, S_ASGN_RULE_ITEM ITEM_ZIPCODE, S_ASGN_RULE_ITEM ITEM_COUNTRY WHERE ITEM_ZIPCODE.ASGN_RULE_ID = RULE_ZIPCODE.ROW_ID AND RULE_ZIPCODE.ITEM_TYPE_NAME = 'Account Zip Code' AND RULE_ZIPCODE.ASGN_GRP_ID = RULE_COUNTRY.ASGN_GRP_ID AND RULE_COUNTRY.ITEM_TYPE_NAME = 'Account Country' AND RULE_COUNTRY.ROW_ID = ITEM_COUNTRY.ASGN_RULE_ID AND RULE_ZIPCODE.ASGN_GRP_ID = S_ASGN_GRP.ROW_ID AND S_ASGN_GRP.NAME LIKE 'ECC%' ORDER BY COUNTRY,LO_ZIPCODE,PR_POSTN_ID Function: Fetch Error: ORA-01406: fetched column value was truncated -- - David Life is what happens while waiting or planning for the future. > When a receiving vaiable is defined shorter than the actual column length, > the column gets truncated during the fetch. So, you probably perform some > 'fetch into ....' or 'select .... into ...', and should define a larger > variable to store all of the fetched data. > > Regards, Carel-Jan > > === > If you think education is expensive, try ignorance. (Derek Bok) > === > > > Can anyone provide an explanation on what this errror means and why we > > would get it on a select statment once, but not again. > > I found very little info on MEtalink. > > Thanks! > > > > -- > > - David > > Life is what happens while waiting > > or planning for the future. > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. > > -- > > Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ > > FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. > -- > Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ > FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html > ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------