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Special characters show junk in CLOB columns after upgrade to Oracle 19.7.0 with JDBC

When you’d copy & paste the above title into a search engine, you may come across a very similar sounding blog post I wrote two years ago. Today, my dear colleague Dirk asked me on behalf of a customer if it’s possible that this bug is back in 19.7.0. Of course, I said “No”, for sure not. Bug 26380097 was fixed in Oracle 18c already. Gladly, Dirk insisted. So I checked the SR his customer opened.

And now I can write an unplanned blog post about Special characters show junk in CLOB columns

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