SQL error “ORA-01722: invalid number”

Question

A very easy one for someone, The following insert is giving me the

ORA-01722: invalid number

why?

INSERT INTO C         


        

Answer 1

This is because:

You executed an SQL statement that tried to convert a string to a number, but it was unsuccessful.

As explained in:

• Oracle/PLSQL: ORA-01722 Error.

To resolve this error:

Only numeric fields or character fields that contain numeric values can be used in arithmetic operations. Make sure that all expressions evaluate to numbers.

Answer 2

try this as well, when you have a invalid number error

In this a.emplid is number and b.emplid is an varchar2 so if you got to convert one of the sides

where to_char(a.emplid)=b.emplid

Answer 3

Well it also can be :

SELECT t.col1, t.col2, ('test' + t.col3) as test_col3 
FROM table t;

where for concatenation in oracle is used the operator || not +.

In this case you get : ORA-01722: invalid number ...

Answer 4

As this error comes when you are trying to insert non-numeric value into a numeric column in db it seems that your last field might be numeric and you are trying to send it as a string in database. check your last value.

Answer 5

Here's one way to solve it. Remove non-numeric characters then cast it as a number.

cast(regexp_replace('0419 853 694', '[^0-9]+', '') as number)

Answer 6

This happened to me too, but the problem was actually different: file encoding.

The file was correct, but the file encoding was wrong. It was generated by the export utility of SQL Server and I saved it as Unicode.

The file itself looked good in the text editor, but when I opened the *.bad file that the SQL*loader generated with the rejected lines, I saw it had bad characters between every original character. Then I though about the encoding.

I opened the original file with Notepad++ and converted it to ANSI, and everything loaded properly.