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Re: Export/Import Error and Validation !!!

From: Stephane Faroult <sfaroult_at_oriole.com>
Date: Wed, 08 Jan 2003 11:44:15 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0052A8B2.20030108114415@fatcity.com>


Tracy Rahmlow wrote:
>
> We attempted to reorg a table and data corruption resulted. We have isolated
> the issue and currently have a tar open with Oracle. But basically, when we
> export the table with a buffer=10485760 the import process corrupts the data.
> The row count matches, however some fields that initially were null now contain
> data (there were some other odd data issues in addition). No errors were
> produced during either the export or import process. When we used a
> buffer=65536 the table data was correct. This is reproducable. Has anybody
> seen this before? (AIX 4.3.3 / Oracle 8.1.7.3) Can the buffer size be set too
> high?

This is just an idea based on past problems with the OCIs, but array size (as in 'array fetch') is limited to 32K (smells of signed short index). Your buffer size indirectly specifies the number of rows you return with a single batch (something in the order of magnitude of buffer / avg_row_len). It is not impossible, if your rows are short, that your theoretical array size is past the limit and that Oracle doesn't handle it properly.

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