RE: odd problem when changing a datatype on table
- From: "Mercadante, Thomas F" <thomas.mercadante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: "'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'" <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 10:27:11 -0400
Chris,
In the first crate table/select statement, you explicitely selected the
columns you wanted from the order_log table (col1, col2, to_number(col3)).
In the insert/select statement, you are doing a select *. You now need to
do a column by column comparison between the two tables. You will find a
column mis-match - maybe a number column trying to be inserted into a date
column?
Hope this helps.
Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional
-----Original Message-----
From: Chris Stephens [mailto:ChrisStephens@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 10:21 AM
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: odd problem when changing a datatype on table
Here's what i did:
create table order_log2 as select cola, colb, to_number(colc) colc,... from
order_log;
truncate table order_log
alter table order_log modify (colc number);
insert into order_log select * from order_log2;
......and i get:
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00932: inconsistent datatypes: expected NUMBER got DATE
what gives?
it's not even on the column who's datatype i changed.
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