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devnull

Member Since 10 Jul 2003
Offline Last Active Jul 25 2003 07:56 AM
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Weird numeric conversion error?

10 July 2003 - 03:01 AM

Hi all

Platform: PROIV v 5.0r109 on Oracle 8.1.7

We've recently been experience a strange problem. On one of our larger tables, we get a numeric conversion error at random times - we have tracked the problem to be related to a date in the table, which has been set to 0 from PROIV (and thus appears as 31/12/1799 in the oracle table). :(

Strange thing is, there are many other records with the same dates, and they work fine - it only happens to particular records which have no unique traits when compared to other records that are being processed....
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Once an offending record is found, the problem can be repeated ad infinitum - if the date is set to 1/1/1800, everything starts working - set it back to 31/12/1799 (even from Oracle) and the rollbacks return. :eek:

I am thinking that it must be some weird buffer overflow or PROIV/Oracle interface bug.... has anyone experienced something similar?

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