ORA-01439 column to be modified must be empty to change datatype

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Description:
ORA-01439 column to be modified must be empty to change datatype

Cause:
An ALTER TABLE MODIFY statement attempted to change the datatype of a column containing data. A column whose datatype is to be altered must contain only NULL values.

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  1. admin
    March 20th, 2009 at 13:46 | #1

    To alter the datatype, first set all values in the column to NULL.

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