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impdp with AL32UTF8 character set

edited Oct 6, 2014 10:30AM in Database Administration (MOSC) 11 commentsAnswered ✓

Target:  Oracle 12.1.0.2 RDBMS using AL32UTF8

Source Oracle 11.1.0.7 RDBMS using WE8ISO8859P1

When importing over a network_link I've encountered a few columns affected by this multi-byte character set change.  In most cases it's easy enough to fix by precreating the table with a bigger column size.  I've hit one, however, that is over the VARCHAR2(4000) size and am researching my options.  Out of the entire database, there is 1 table.column affected by this, so I don't want to go to the trouble of setting the extended data type parameter MAX_STRING_SIZE=EXTENDED.  For this upgrade we are moving to the UTF character set because I've seen recommendations from Oracle. I also would like to

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