diff --git a/symmetric/src/changes/changes.xml b/symmetric/src/changes/changes.xml
index 08131e8f6e..644e515c07 100644
--- a/symmetric/src/changes/changes.xml
+++ b/symmetric/src/changes/changes.xml
@@ -30,6 +30,10 @@
             <action dev="chenson42" type="add" issue="aid=1956188&amp;atid=997724">
                 Support an initial load pushed from client to server.
             </action>
+            <action dev="chenson42" type="fix">
+                Inactivating a sym_trigger by setting the inactive_time column to a non-null value
+                was fixed.
+            </action>            
             <action dev="chenson42" type="fix">
                 Fixed null pointer for blank my.url property. We now default my.url to blank in
                 symmetric-default.properties.
@@ -66,7 +70,7 @@
             </action>
             <action dev="chenson42" type="add">
                 Added a new plug-in point, the IBatchListener. This new interface gives the end user a chance to do
-                something with a group of data rows that are in the same batch. See XmlPublisher for an usage example.
+                something with a group of data rows that are in the same batch. See XmlPublisherFilter for an usage example.
             </action>
             <action dev="chenson42" type="add">
                 Added a new plug-in point, the IExtractorFilter. This new filter can be useful to capture and react to
@@ -77,7 +81,7 @@
             </action>
             <action dev="chenson42" type="add" issue="aid=1955378&amp;atid=997727">
                 Don't include the keys in data loader update statement if they haven't changed. This feature is turned
-                off by default and can be enabled by the new symmetric.runtime.dont.include.keys.in.update.statement
+                off by default and can be enabled by the new dont.include.keys.in.update.statement
                 parameter.
             </action>
             <action dev="chenson42" type="add" issue="aid=1955383&amp;atid=997727">
diff --git a/symmetric/src/main/resources/dialects/oracle.xml b/symmetric/src/main/resources/dialects/oracle.xml
index d3647bbc9e..e607c47de3 100644
--- a/symmetric/src/main/resources/dialects/oracle.xml
+++ b/symmetric/src/main/resources/dialects/oracle.xml
@@ -33,14 +33,16 @@
                                     v_buffer  PLS_INTEGER := 999;
                                 BEGIN
                                     IF blob_in IS NOT NULL THEN
-                                        DBMS_LOB.CREATETEMPORARY(v_clob, TRUE);
-                                        FOR i IN 1..CEIL(DBMS_LOB.GETLENGTH(blob_in) / v_buffer)
-                                        LOOP    
-                                            v_varchar := UTL_RAW.CAST_TO_VARCHAR2(UTL_ENCODE.base64_encode(DBMS_LOB.SUBSTR(blob_in, v_buffer, v_start)));
-                                            v_varchar := REPLACE(v_varchar,CHR(13)||CHR(10)); 
-                                            DBMS_LOB.WRITEAPPEND(v_clob, LENGTH(v_varchar), v_varchar);
-                                            v_start := v_start + v_buffer;
-                                        END LOOP;
+                                        IF DBMS_LOB.GETLENGTH(blob_in) > 0 THEN
+                                            DBMS_LOB.CREATETEMPORARY(v_clob, TRUE);
+                                            FOR i IN 1..CEIL(DBMS_LOB.GETLENGTH(blob_in) / v_buffer)
+                                            LOOP    
+                                                v_varchar := UTL_RAW.CAST_TO_VARCHAR2(UTL_ENCODE.base64_encode(DBMS_LOB.SUBSTR(blob_in, v_buffer, v_start)));
+                                                v_varchar := REPLACE(v_varchar,CHR(13)||CHR(10)); 
+                                                DBMS_LOB.WRITEAPPEND(v_clob, LENGTH(v_varchar), v_varchar);
+                                                v_start := v_start + v_buffer;
+                                            END LOOP;
+                                        END IF;
                                     END IF;
                                     RETURN v_clob; 
                                 END fn_sym_blob2clob;