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with us Stack Overflow Questions Jobs Documentation Tags Users Badges Ask Question x Dismiss Join the Stack Overflow Community Stack Overflow ora-01722 invalid number solution is a community of 4.7 million programmers, just like you, helping each other. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up sql error “ORA-01722: invalid number” up vote 41 down vote favorite 1 A ora-01722 invalid number to_char very easy one for someone, The following insert is giving me the "ORA-01722: invalid number" error, why? INSERT INTO CUSTOMER VALUES (1,'MALADY','Claire','27 Smith St Caulfield','0419 853 694'); INSERT INTO CUSTOMER VALUES (2,'GIBSON','Jake','27 Smith St Caulfield','0415 713 598'); INSERT INTO CUSTOMER VALUES (3,'LUU','Barry','5 Jones St Malvern','0413 591 341'); INSERT INTO CUSTOMER VALUES (4,'JONES','Michael','7 Smith St Caulfield','0419 853 694'); INSERT INTO CUSTOMER VALUES (5,'MALADY','Betty','27 Smith St Knox','0418 418 347'); sql oracle plsql
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share|improve this question edited Sep 23 '12 at 6:44 a_horse_with_no_name 183k24229306 asked Sep 23 '12 at 1:24 Phillip Gibson 239133 19 So... what's the table definition for CUSTOMER? You've only given half the information needed. –Greg Hewgill Sep 23 '12 at 1:26 2 The telephone numbers are the only thing which might reasonably be a defined as a numeric which your data doesn't represent as a numeric (spaces aren't numeric). So: check your table definition and compare with your input statements. –APC Sep 23 '12 at 22:05 5 Why would people down vote this question. For people who are new to databases, this is a weird error. I can see how enclosing the values with quotes might make it look like it's a string. It just depends on what the database is setup as. It might all be strings or numbers just depends on the fields. Maybe it was an error when the database was created. –sisharp Jun 14 '13 at 19:59 4 I know it's been 2 years, but how about an "accept"? –Aaron Nov 27 '14 at 14:44 2 And yet another year goes by without an "accept." Although, this is my highest scoring answer, so I can't feel
UPDATE 3.3 Other Rare Situations What causes this error?[edit] An ORA-01722 ("invalid number") error occurs when an attempt is made to convert a character string into ora-01722 invalid number to_number a number, and the string cannot be converted into a valid number. Valid numbers ora 01722 invalid number while upgrade contain the digits '0' through '9', with possibly one decimal point, a sign (+ or -) at the beginning or
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end of the string, or an 'E' or 'e' (if it is a floating point number in scientific notation). All other characters are forbidden. There are numerous situations where this conversion may occur. A http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12549029/sql-error-ora-01722-invalid-number numeric column may be the object of an INSERT or an UPDATE statement. Or, a numeric column may appear as part of a WHERE clause. It is even possible for this error to appear when there are no numeric columns appearing explicitly in the statement! Examples[edit] Here are some examples: SQL> select to_number('3434,3333.000') from dual; ERROR: ORA-01722: invalid number no rows selected The above statement throws the error message, http://www.orafaq.com/wiki/ORA-01722 because it has found a character, in this case, a comma and the default format for TO_NUMBER does not contain a comma. The same error can occur when you use arithmetic functions on strings: SQL> select 'abc' - 124 from dual; ERROR: ORA-01722: invalid number no rows selected The error can occur when you add dates with string values: SQL> select '01-JUN-01' - 'abc' from dual; ERROR: ORA-01722: invalid number no rows selected How to fix it[edit] The fix depends upon the exact expression which caused the problem. The following guide lists the possible SQL expressions which can give this error, with their most likely cause. When addressing this error, keep in mind that it can indicate a simple keystroke problem with the query, or a deeper problem with the query logic, or even the presence of bad data in the database itself. When doing an INSERT INTO ... VALUES (...)[edit] One of the data items you are trying to insert is an invalid number. Locate and correct it. If all of the numbers appear to be valid, then you probably have your columns out of order, and an item in the VALUES clause is being inserted into a NUMBER column instead o
17, 2012 - 9:21 am UTC Category: – Version: Latest Followup You Asked What is the error ORA-01722 and we said... ORA-1722 is Invalid number. We've attempted to either explicity or implicity convert a character string to https://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:45012348053 a number and it is failing. This can happen for a number of reasons. It generally happens in SQL only (during a query) not in plsql (plsql throws a different exception for this error). You can http://geekswithblogs.net/malisancube/archive/2008/07/25/oracle-data-conversion-ora-01722-invalid-number.aspx see this error easily by: ops$tkyte@8i> select to_number('abc') from dual; select to_number('abc') from dual * ERROR at line 1: ORA-01722: invalid number This error seems to creep into queries in the strangest ways. A change in invalid number the order of a predicate can make it come and go -- depending on the order of evaluation in the predicate. Consider this example: ops$tkyte@8i> create table t ( x int, y varchar2(25) ); Table created. ops$tkyte@8i> ops$tkyte@8i> insert into t values ( 1, 'abc' ); 1 row created. ops$tkyte@8i> insert into t values ( 2, '123' ); 1 row created. ops$tkyte@8i> ops$tkyte@8i> ops$tkyte@8i> select * from t where y > 100 01722 invalid number and x = 2; X Y ---------- ------------------------- 2 123 ops$tkyte@8i> select * from t where x = 2 and y > 100; select * from t where x = 2 and y > 100 * ERROR at line 1: ORA-01722: invalid number The first query worked since we *tend* to evaluate queries from the bottom up. We evaluated the x=2 part first and never tried to do 'abc' > 100. In the second query, the y>100 was evaluated first. Y was promoted to a number and then compared to 100. 'abc' could not be converted so ORA-1722. The only general purpose solution is to always compare like types to like types. You should either convert the column Y entirely to numbers (clean the data) or use a character string comparision (which changes the meaning of the predicate -- y > 100 is very different from y > '100' ) Reviews Write a Review ORa-01722 March 27, 2001 - 2:30 pm UTC Reviewer: Tom Petrella from Melville, NY I was getting this error and it was driving me nuts because I know everything was syntactically correct and there were no invalid numbers. Be rearranging the order of the where clause i got it to work. Thanks ! Is there a surefire way to avoid thi
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