Oracle Forums Down After Upgrade

It was about three months ago when the OTN launched a better release. It had to be rolled back with all the implied consequences. People who had participated for the new release saw their work simply disappear.

For the second time a new attempt to release the forum was made, it fairly worked for one week. Afterwards the forum had to be shutdown once again. What is going on with the oracle team who had assembled the forum? Is this really an escalable application?

The attempted version was pretty nice. The editor functionality was improved, there were reward points for the people who really aported valuable knowledge to the forum.

However it happenend that this solution simply doesn't work. It is very nice, and it would be even nicer if this solution worked, but ... the big BUT ...

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We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
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I like the philosophy of this forum, this way people like Sybrand "senior RTFM answers" Bakker can be easily spotted and automatically self-banned. This goes for all the similar inflated egos posters who are just playing a bullying games with junior level posters.

I wish Oracle Corporation really invested time, effort and money in its flag ship forum, forums.oracle.com

ORA-01460: Unimplemeted conversion requested

When performing a SQL*Loader of a BLOB file an error showed up:

Column Name Position Len Term Encl Datatype
------------------------------ ---------- ----- ---- ---- ---------------------
ID FIRST 5 INTEGER
NAME NEXT 50 , CHARACTER
IMAGE DERIVED * EOF CHARACTER
Dynamic LOBFILE. Filename in field NAME

Record 1: Rejected - Error on table IMAGES.
ORA-01460: unimplemented or unreasonable conversion requested

Record 2: Rejected - Error on table IMAGES.
ORA-01460: unimplemented or unreasonable conversion requested

Record 3: Rejected - Error on table IMAGES.
ORA-01460: unimplemented or unreasonable conversion requested

The original controlfile used had this format:

LOAD DATA
INFILE *
INTO TABLE IMAGES
REPLACE
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
(
id INTEGER(5),
name CHAR(50),
image LOBFILE (name) TERMINATED BY EOF
)
BEGINDATA
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The problem was because a data format was forced from the controlfile, just by changing the data type definition and letting SQL*Loader to have it define solved the problem, so the control file after the modification was:

LOAD DATA
INFILE *
INTO TABLE image_table
REPLACE
FIELDS TERMINATED BY ','
(
image_id,
file_name,
image_data LOBFILE (file_name) TERMINATED BY EOF
)
BEGINDATA
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