Oracle Error OCI-21580: The LOB operation length (value=string) for column (string) must be an even number of bytes.

Oracle Error Message

OCI-21580: The LOB operation length (value=string) for column (string) must be an even number of bytes.

Reason for the Error

An attempt was made to call OCIXStreamInChunkSend with an odd number of bytes for a column flagged as AL16UTF16 or NCLOB.

Solution

Correct either the LOB column length or ‘column_flag’ argument to OCIXStreamInChunkSend call.