Oracle Data Pump Import imports LONG with spaces after evfery character

Question

I'm importing an 11g oracle schema into a 10g database using data pump import/export. The problem is that on one of my LONG columns, when importing the data data pump seems to put a space after every character, so the data goes from looking like this:

{somedata}

To this:

{ s o m e d a t a }

This obviously breaks the application that is trying to use this database. Is there a way round this?

Answer 1

You are moving data from a newer version of the database to an older version. Data Pump can do this, but not by default. Did you specify VERSION=10.2 (or whatever) when you ran the export? Find out more.