RE: CSALTER.plb Failing ...... Attempting to Alter Character Set from US7ASCII to AL32UTF8

  • From: "VIVEK_SHARMA" <VIVEK_SHARMA@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 17:26:02 +0530

Folks



On an internal Test 10gR2 Database running of CSALTER.plb is Failing
when Attempting to Alter Character Set from US7ASCII to AL32UTF8.



Qs Does User/Application Data which during CSSCAN reported 2 types of
Errors i.e. "Truncation" & "Lossy conversion" necessarily needs to be
Manually Corrected?



NOTE - We do NOT seek to Manually correct the Application Data, but want
CSALTER to go thru successfully.



Qs Should the 3 indexes which need to be RE-built be DROPPED before
Running the CSALTER.PLB Script & RE-built After ALTERATION?



Application = Banking Product

O.S. = HP-UX B.11.11



Thanks indeed



Vivek



OUTPUT of CSALTER.PLB:-



SQL> start ?/rdbms/admin/csalter.plb



Checking data validility...

Exceptional data found in scanner result

Checking or Converting phrase did not finish successfully



SUMMARY Report of CSSCAN of the FULL Database is as follows:-



[Data Dictionary Conversion Summary]

.. .

The data dictionary can be safely migrated using the CSALTER script



[Application Data Conversion Summary]



Datatype                    Changeless      Convertible       Truncation
Lossy

--------------------- ---------------- ---------------- ----------------
----------------

VARCHAR2                    26,854,997                0              136
165

CHAR                         8,603,927                0                3
3

LONG                               631                0                0
13,229

CLOB                                 0                0                0
0

VARRAY                               0                0                0
0

--------------------- ---------------- ---------------- ----------------
----------------

Total                       35,459,555                0              139
13,397

Total in percentage             99.962%           0.000%
0.000%           0.038%



[Indexes to be Rebuilt]



Showed 3 Indexes to be RE-Built



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