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Status Assessment
Categories Documentation
Created by Guest
Created on Oct 13, 2023

Support for double byte characters in NVARCHAR(2)

"Data overflow" error often appears while running HEI activity with Source as "Oracle" and Destination as "Notes".

Log similar to below can be observed while running the HEI activity -->

2023/04/14 16:31:34 Activity started

2023/04/14 16:31:35 Character set not equal 'Oracle codepage 832 set by EIOracle8NativeText does not equal the codepage of the Oracle database (871), data loss is possible', Connector <Oracle connector name>, Method -Connect-

2023/04/14 16:31:35 Character set overriding 'Overriding Oracle codepage to UTF8 (LCSTREAMFMT 171) from source Oracle Server', Connector <Oracle Connector Name>, Method -Connect-

2023/04/14 16:31:35 Trace Statement: <select * from table>, Connector <Oracle connector name>, Method -Execute-

2023/04/14 16:31:36 Removed all records from metadata '<name>', Connector <Notes connector name>, Method -Action [Truncate]-

2023/04/14 16:31:40 Error: Data overflow, Connector <Oracle connector name>', Method -Fetch-

2023/04/14 16:31:40 Activity Ended With An Error


The error appears due to one/multiple columns of type NVARCHAR2 where double-byte characters are stored.

The error can appear for LEI activities involving data transfer between Notes to Oracle as well as Oracle to Notes.

Note --> The data source in the above example is Oracle. It could be another data source as well having a column of type NVARCHAR2.


Currently, the workaround to deal with this issue is -->

Double the column width for the column of data type NVARCHAR2.

Ex --> If the impacted column causing the error is of type NVARCHAR2(20), then double the width by making it of type NVARCHAR2(40).

This will help in avoiding the "Data overflow" error.


Note -->

This is a limitation of a column of type NVARCHAR2.

The requirement is to allow the double-byte characters in such columns without increasing the width.


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