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May 21, 2018
May 21, 2018

Kafka Connect and Oracle data types

The Kafka Connect JDBC Connector by default does not cope so well with: NUMBER columns with no defined precision/scale. You may end up with apparent junk (bytes) in the output, or just errors. TIMESTAMP WITH LOCAL TIME ZONE. Throws JDBC type -102 not currently supported warning in the log. Read more about NUMBER data type in the Oracle docs. tl;dr : How do I make it work? There are several options:

Robin Moffatt

Robin Moffatt works on the DevRel team at Confluent. He likes writing about himself in the third person, eating good breakfasts, and drinking good beer.

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