How to fix the Oracle error ORA-24363: measurements in characters illegal here?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-24363: measurements in characters illegal here with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-24363: measurements in characters illegal here

Reason for the Error ORA-24363: measurements in characters illegal here

Measurements in characters instead of bytes are illegal if either the server’s or client’s character set is varying width.

How to fix the Error ORA-24363: measurements in characters illegal here ?

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

If either the client’s or server’s character set is varying width then do not use the OCI_ATTR_CHAR_COUNT attribute for the bind handle. Use OCI_ATTR_MAXDATA_SIZE instead.