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

From: VIVEK_SHARMA <VIVEK_SHARMA_at_infosys.com>
Date: Mon, 8 Jan 2007 17:26:02 +0530
Message-ID: <BBD944BCAC3AB4499DFBAFB1D8AF302002617931@BLRKECMSG11.ad.infosys.com>

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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