How to fix the Oracle error OCI-22600: encountered 8.0.2 (Beta) VARRAY data that cannot be processed?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorOCI-22600: encountered 8.0.2 (Beta) VARRAY data that cannot be processed with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

OCI-22600: encountered 8.0.2 (Beta) VARRAY data that cannot be processed

Reason for the Error OCI-22600: encountered 8.0.2 (Beta) VARRAY data that cannot be processed

Production Oracle8 (8.0.3 and beyond) encounters some VARRAY data which was created and stored by Oracle8 8.0.2 (Beta 2). Production Oracle8 cannot understand or process such VARRAY data.

How to fix the Error OCI-22600: encountered 8.0.2 (Beta) VARRAY data that cannot be processed ?

You can fix this error in Oracle by following the below steps

Delete the VARRAY data from the table by dropping the table, deleting the rows, or nulling out the VARRAY columns, and then re-insert the VARRAY data. There is no provided script or tool to help automate this conversion.