Re: Null data in not null column

SQL> insert into emp(empno) values ("");
ERROR:
ORA-01741: illegal zero-length identifier


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SQL> insert into emp(empno) values ('');
insert into emp(empno) values ('')
                               *
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01400: cannot insert NULL into ("GRIBNAUT"."EMP"."EMPNO")


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TJ is correct, the NOT NULL constraint was added after the NULL values were entered; it was created NOVALIDATE so it wouldn't fail on creation due to the existing NULL values.  It's possible to disable the constraint on the source table before the export then enable it novalidate in the destination database after the table has been imported.  Of course you would also need to enable the constraint novalidate in the source database after the export has completed.

 
David Fitzjarrell
Primary author, "Oracle Exadata Survival Guide"

On Tuesday, April 15, 2014 11:13 AM, "howard.latham_at_gmail.com" <howard.latham_at_gmail.com> wrote:
 
Set it to ""



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From: "Ingrid Voigt" <giantpanda_at_gmx.net>
To: "oracle-l_at_freelists.org" <oracle-l_at_freelists.org>
Subject: Null data in not null column
Date: Tue, Apr 15, 2014 4:53 PM

Hi,
 
one of our customers' databases has a table with a not null column containing empty data.
Do you know how this can be set up?  I need to copy the table (via exp/imp) and hit either ORA-01400 (when defining not null 
before insert) or ORA-02296 (when I insert first and later modify the column).
  More details: Windows 2008 R2
Oracle 11.2.0.3 + Patch 27 (January 2014)  Table definition (more columns left out):  CREATE TABLE USR_USER
( OID           NUMBER(15)                      NOT NULL, ANZEIGE_NAME  VARCHAR2(40 BYTE)               DEFAULT ''                    NOT NULL,
)
TABLESPACE USERS; And the data:  > select oid, anzeige_name, '.'||anzeige_name||'.' from usr_user; OID ANZEIGE_NAME                             LENGTH(ANZEIGE_NAME)
---------- ---------------------------------------- -------------------- 223 224
(more rows left out) These are not strings consisting of spaces, but really empty ones, i.e. nulls.  Insert into the table without specifying anzeige_name also hits ORA-01400, the condition 
is active. The corresponding check constraint is  enabled and validated.  I'd appreciate help in reproducing this.  Thank you. 
Ingrid Voigt
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