Database Error Messages

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Jun 24, 2024

ORA-09820

Conversion of class string to numeric representation failed.

Cause

ORACLE was unable to convert a class string to a number because all of the characters in the string were not numeric.


Action

Change the string to be either all numbers or all non-numeric characters and repeat the conversion.