How to fix the Oracle error ORA-28533: Heterogeneous Services coercion handling error?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-28533: Heterogeneous Services coercion handling error with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-28533: Heterogeneous Services coercion handling error

Reason for the Error ORA-28533: Heterogeneous Services coercion handling error

The Heterogeneous Services encountered an error in coercion handling. The HS can, if the agent vendor so chooses, perform extra processing on SQL statements that contain implicit coercions or that contain coercion functions such as TO_CHAR, TO_NUMBER or TO_DATE. This functionality is controlled by coercion-related capabilities. HS logic reports this error when it encounters an error in one of these capability definitions.

How to fix the Error ORA-28533: Heterogeneous Services coercion handling error ?

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

The capability table settings are controlled by the agent vendor and can be modified by the DBA. Contact your DBA and agent vendor and get the correct set of capabilities installed.