Re: Change database character set

From: Niall Litchfield <niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 13:30:57 +0100
Message-ID: <CABe10sYoPEyuoWpqPJHErGQ_bj2yavfe41HWE3Z+KncKBKR0nQ_at_mail.gmail.com>



You can verify the Agent issue by stopping it (or dbconsole) and re running On 24 Oct 2014 13:10, "Kenny Payton" <k3nnyp_at_gmail.com> wrote:

> It sounds like you're getting off easy. As for the sys.reg$ row we had a
> similar row and it was related to the emagent. We probably could have got
> away with just deleting it but what we did was create a table in a user
> schema with the row in it, export the user table, delete the row from both
> tables and then reload the row after the csalter. In hindsight this
> probably wasn't necessary but worked.
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> You could probably do the same with the clob data as well.
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> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 8:04 AM, Scott Canaan <srcdco_at_rit.edu> wrote:
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>> Actually, I’ve been considering doing something similar to this. The 9
>> rows in that table (out of about 20) that are affected were added in August
>> and the person that added them still has the original documents, so they
>> could be reloaded after the conversion. I believe that what is in the
>> HUGECLOB in that table is just a word document that was cut and pasted into
>> the field.
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>> The only row that really concerns me is the one in SYS.REG$.
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>> Scott Canaan ’88 (srcdco_at_rit.edu)
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>> (585) 475-7886 – work (585) 339-8659 – cell
>>
>> “Life is like a sewer, what you get out of it depends on what you put
>> into it.” – Tom Lehrer
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>> *From:* Chris Taylor [mailto:christopherdtaylor1994_at_gmail.com]
>> *Sent:* Friday, October 24, 2014 8:01 AM
>> *To:* Niall Litchfield
>> *Cc:* Scott Canaan; oracle.unknowns_at_gmail.com; oracle-l_at_freelists.org
>> *Subject:* Re: Change database character set
>>
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>> Based on Niall's analysis, another option could be to export the
>> SCRIPT_GROUP table, truncate it, do the conversion and reload it (depending
>> on the size).
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>> Chris
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>> On Fri, Oct 24, 2014 at 5:02 AM, Niall Litchfield <
>> niall.litchfield_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Scott
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>> I'm pretty sure you'll find the session_key row is transient and due to
>> an emagent (either grid/cloud control or dbconsole) - there's a note on
>> csscan dictionary errors that will tell you. That leaves you with 9
>> documents (they look like word docs/emails). Can you grab those from the
>> app and reenter the data post conversion?
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