Re: Sql Developer

If we use set long 1000000 - then the problem which Norman mentioned goes away.
I have used dbms_metadata to get the ddl for very large tables and I did'nt get into any issues , we need to supply required formats though.

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Ajeet

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On 6/14/07, Norman Dunbar <norman.dunbar_at_environment-agency.gov.uk> wrote:
>
>
> Morning Paul,
>
> >> I've written a package that calls DBMS_METADATA (10g) to produce the
> DDL to recreate an entire schema, and it
> >> works great.
>
> Isn't there a bug in DBMS_METADATA that causes 'scripts' of longer than
> 4,000 (or 2,000 maybe) characters to fail to convert from CLOB to
> RAW/CHAR/VARCHAR2. It used to happen only for materialized views but
> I've seen it happen with heap tables too - provided they were plenty big
> enough that is !
>
> Just a thought or vague remembrance.
>
>
> Cheers,
> Norman.
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> Norman Dunbar.
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