On 10/17/2006 10:12:48 PM, cosmin ioan wrote: > ORA-17055 > Invalid character encountered in > > > hi guys, has anyone encountered this in JDBC apps? -- not very well > documented in Oracle and I'm not a Java developer ;-) > > not sure what to make of it and don't know if it has anything to do with > some tables' columns being defined as varchar2( x byte) vs varchar2(x)... Cosmin, you can always set something like: alter system set events='17055 trace name errorstack forever, level 10' scope=memory; That will cause these errors to create a trace file in user_dump_dest and SQL statement causing the error will be in the trace file as well. That will make it easier to decide the next step. -- Mladen Gogala http://www.mladen-gogala.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l