AIO
August 10, 2023, 8:05pm
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Ran into the same issue, was able to resolve it following your advice. Seems like the alarm journal table creation isn't getting a VARCHAR, but a CLOB instead.
Ran this series of commands to change it from CLOB to VARCHAR. Picked a length of 500 to leave room for longer descriptions (my longest was 293).
--create new column
alter table ALARM_EVENT_DATA add ("strvalue2" varchar2(500));
--copy clob to varchar
update ALARM_EVENT_DATA set "strvalues" = dbms_lob.substr("strvalue",500,1);
--rename clob, then rename new column
alter table ALARM_EVENT_DATA rename column "strvalue" to "strvalueClob";
alter table ALARM_EVENT_DATA rename column "strvalue2" to "s…