Database Error Messages

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Updated
Jun 24, 2024

ORA-40212

invalid target data type in input data for string function

Cause

Target data type was invalid.


Action

Classification and attribute importance functions accept CHAR, VARCHAR2, and NUMBER data type targets. VARCHAR2 data type targets longer than 4000 bytes are not supported. Regression and time series functions accept NUMBER, BINARY_DOUBLE, and BINARY_FLOAT data type targets only.