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1 I am getting issue while inserting a new record to the table in Oracle database. The error description says- SQL Error: ORA-01401: inserted value too large for column How would I come to know that which column is having large value as I am having 60 columns in the table. oracle oracle10g share|improve this question edited Oct 27 '15 at 13:19 hkutluay 4,33511836 asked Mar 24 '15 at 9:22 value too large for column oracle ora-12899 Prateek Shukla 338316 Can you please tell us version of your database? You tagged it as 10g, however, it seems to be 9i because ora 01401 was replaced in 10g by ora 12899, which is mentioned in @Lalit s answer. In 10g the column name is included in err msg. –Mina Mar 24 '15 at 10:01 add a comment| 1 Answer 1 active oldest votes up vote 2 down vote accepted SQL Error: ORA-01401: inserted value too large for column You are trying to insert value larger than the specified size for the column. How would I come to know that which column is having large value as I am having 60 columns in the table. The error will certainly have the table and column name with the actual size being inserted and the maximum size allowed. For example, SQL> CREATE TABLE t(A VARCHAR2(2)); Table created. SQL> SQL> INSERT INTO t VALUES ('123'); INSERT INTO t VALUES ('123') * ERROR at line 1: ORA-12899: value too large for column "LALIT"."T"."A" (actual: 3, maximum: 2) SQL> In the above example, the error clearly states "column "LALIT"."T"."A" (actual: 3, maximum: 2)" where LALIT is the SCHEMA, T is the TABLE and A is the COLUMN. The size specified for
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and Parsing Latest Followup You Asked Hi Tom, Thank you so much ora-01041 for what you are doing. Here's an Oracle message that is familiar to many of us developers. "ORA-01401: Inserted 01401 zip code value too large for column" It doesn't tell you which column is too large, it leaves it to us to figure out which column is causing problem. While inconvenient it is http://stackoverflow.com/questions/29228898/sql-error-ora-01401-inserted-value-too-large-for-column not too bad if you are trying to insert into a table with few columns in it. However, last time I recevied this error message, a procedure was trying to insert values into table with 220 columns! :-) That's when I realized it's time to ask you. Is there an easier way to find out which columns is causing the problem? At https://asktom.oracle.com/pls/asktom/f?p=100:11:0::::p11_question_id:7143933880166 work somoene told me that if this same thing happened in MS ACCESS, it would tell you the column that's causing the problem. Now I know Oracle is the grandfather of the databases, and so there should be nothing that MS Access (out of all the databases on god's great earth) can but Oracle can't do. So I am hoping there is some way you can show us how we can identify the value that's too large, or the column name in which we are trying to insert. Thank you so much! and we said... wouldn't it be cool if we were just like access. wow, I cannot wait for our entire feature set to catch up! (seriously, this is an enhancement I too would like to see). Here is an idea for you: scott@ORA920> create or replace procedure gen_crud( p_tname in varchar2 ) 2 authid current_user 3 as 4 l_stmt long; 5 l_plist long; 6 l_assign long; 7 l_ins1 long; 8 l_ins2 long; 9 l_upd long; 10 begin 11 for x in 12 ( select column_name, 13 decode(column_id,1,'',','||chr(10)||chr(9) ) sep, 14 column_id, 15
Tom Kyte � Last updated: September 03, 2005 - 7:23 am UTC Category: Database � Version: 8.1.7 Whilst you are here, check out some content from the AskTom team: PL/SQL Challenge approaches 1,000,000 answers....how should we celebrate? Latest Followup https://asktom.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=100:11:0::::P11_QUESTION_ID:4206203589236 You Asked Hi Tom, Got a chance to ask a question after quite a http://www.dba-oracle.com/sf_ora_01401_inserted_value_too_large_for_column.htm while... your site is always so busy! ]:-) Anyway, here goes... I have a situation where there are tables in my database receiving data from numerous external sources. Quite a few of these tables have comment-type freetext fields in them, and there have been instances where the "comments" sent in by one system have gone beyond the value too size of db columns allocated to hold them resulting in error. The easy (and most obvious) way to fix this is to make the size of these db columns the same as maximum expected size of the "comments" data. However, the no. of interfacing systems will constantly ramp up over time, and I do not want to continually change the column length whenever a system with larger "comments" field comes in. value too large I would much rather do this through triggers or such-like, where the comments data is checked to be <= db column size, and truncated appropriately when it exceeds this size. However, when I try and create a before-insert trigger to implement this, I get a "inserted value too large" error. It seems Oracle is checking to ensure the data can fit into destination column BEFORE firing the trigger, thus circumventing my check-and-fix logic! A simple case to illustrate this is given below... -------------------------------------------------------------- SQL> drop table mytest; Table dropped. SQL> create table mytest (col1 number(10), col2 varchar2(10)); Table created. SQL> create or replace trigger fmtTrig 2 before insert on mytest 3 for each row 4 declare 5 maxColSize number(4); 6 tmpBuffer varchar2(4000); 7 begin 8 select data_length 9 into maxColSize 10 from user_tab_columns 11 where column_name = 'COL2' 12 and table_name = 'MYTEST'; 13 14 tmpBuffer := substr(:new.col2,1,maxColSize - 1); 15 :new.col2 := tmpBuffer; 16 dbms_output.PUT_LINE('inserted values are: '||tmpBuffer); 17 end; 18 / Trigger created. SQL> insert into mytest values (1, 'this goes'); 1 row created. SQL> insert into mytest values (2, 'this is truncated'); insert into mytest values (2, 'this is truncated') * ERROR at line 1: ORA-01401: inserted value too large for column SQL> rollback; Rollback complete. ------------------------------------------------------------- All he
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ORA-01401 inserted value too large for column tips Oracle Error Tips by Burleson The Oracle docs note this about ORA-01401: ORA-01401 inserted value too large for column Cause: The value entered is larger than the maximum width defined for the column. Action: Enter a value smaller than the column width or use the MODIFY option with ALTER TABLE to expand the column width. Here, a user encounters ORA-01401 with 9i. Question: I have a table with 118 columns and keep receiving ORA-01401 when I attempt to put the data in a table with a cursor. Is there any way I can figure out which column is throwing the ORA-01401 error? Answer: You should note that in 10g, the error has been updated and includes further information, making it easier to resolve ORA-01401. SeeORA-12899_value_too_large_for_column. Otherwise, you call always test your data using PL/SQL. Or, you can always try making an exception with PRAGMA EXCEPTION_INIT : DECLARE my_exception EXCEPTION; PRAGMA EXCEPTION_INIT (my_exception, -1401); BEGIN insert into table () values .............. EXCEPTION WHEN my_exception THEN dbms_output.put_line('Column value too long'); END; Burleson is the American Team Note: This Oracle documentation was created as a support and Oracle training reference for use by our DBA performance tuning consulting professionals. Feel free to ask questions on our Oracle forum. Verify experience! Anyone considering using the services of an Oracle support expert should independently investigate their credentials and experience, and not rely on advertisements and self-proclaimed expertise. All legitimate Oracle experts publish t