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Does the Oracle Wire Protocol driver support Oracle 12c setting MAX_STRING_SIZE=EXTENDED?

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Title	Does the Oracle Wire Protocol driver support Oracle 12c setting MAX_STRING_SIZE=EXTENDED?

URL Name	does-the-oracle-wire-protocol-driver-support-oracle-12c-setting-max-string-size-extended

Article Number	000180989

Environment	Product: Connect/Connect64 for ODBC Oracle Wire Protocol driver Version: 7.1 OS: All supported platforms Database: Oracle 12C Application: All supported applications

Question/Problem Description

Does the Oracle Wire Protocol driver support Oracle 12c setting MAX_STRING_SIZE=EXTENDED?

Steps to Reproduce	Create a table with a single VARCHAR2 column of size >4000 in Oracle 12c database which is configured with MAX_STRING_SIZE=EXTENDED . Insert any character string of length > 4000 into the table.

Clarifying Information

With Oracle 12c the max sizes for column types VARCHAR2, NVARCHAR2 and RAW have been increased from 4000 to 32767. Alter the Oracle system to set MAX_STRING_SIZE=EXTENDED to enable this.

Error Message	Invalid precision value. Error in parameter X.

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Enhancement Number

Cause

This functionality is not supported in v7.1. The functionality is only implemented in v8.0 driver

Resolution

Upgrade to 8.0 or later.

Refer to Connect and Connect64 for ODBC hot fix download and install instructions for instructions on how to download and install the hot fix.

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Last Modified Date	12/11/2018 10:02 PM

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