Fatal Error: Invalid character encountered in table XXXX

mchaves · Post by **mchaves** » Wed Mar 10, 2010 5:12 pm

Hi All,

I'm getting a very weird error when trying to populate an oracle table from a dataset using the load method with truncate. The error is "Fatal Error: Invalid character encountered in table XXX". I've tried a lot of things to get around this problem. One was to use a text file instead of dataset but I got the same error BUT when I chose upsert as the write mode, the job worked. Any ideas on what's going on? My problem is not resolved yet because I need to truncate the table before loading data into it and uspsert doesn't have this option.

Any help will be appreciated.

Cheers

ArndW · Post by **ArndW** » Thu Mar 11, 2010 2:03 am

What database are you loading with which method and do you NLS turned on. What is the character set of the database table and, if it is oracle, what are your environment NLS settings for it?

mchaves · Post by **mchaves** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 12:01 am

Found the issue. In the oracle enterprize stage, the table name property had an additional character at the end of the table name. I reckon it was char(13), so I deleted the character and the issue is resolved. I knew it should be something silly.

Thanks anyways.

Cheers

chulett · Post by **chulett** » Wed Mar 17, 2010 8:35 am

Ah... you'll also get something like this when a job parameter is used there and it is not properly specified so doesn't get resolved. Oracle doesn't like the left over hash/pound signs then.

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