How to fix the Oracle error ORA-28528: Heterogeneous Services datatype conversion error?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-28528: Heterogeneous Services datatype conversion error with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-28528: Heterogeneous Services datatype conversion error

Reason for the Error ORA-28528: Heterogeneous Services datatype conversion error

Either an Oracle datatype could not be converted to a non-Oracle datatype, or a non-Oracle datatype could not be converted to an Oracle datatype. The following are possible reasons for for the conversion failure: — overflow problems (in the case of numbers) — length limitations (in the case of character strings) — invalid values passed into the conversion routines

How to fix the Error ORA-28528: Heterogeneous Services datatype conversion error ?

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

Contact customer support of the agent vendor. If the problem is due to size discrepancies between Oracle and the non-Oracle system, it may not be possible to convert the value.