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Re: InStr and Length Problem Ora-01460

From: Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bortel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 19:34:23 +0100
Message-ID: <dld95d$744$3@news6.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>


Ashley Morgan wrote:
> I wonder if anybody can help. I have a where clause which looks for a string
> pattern e.g.
>
> Select * from Table where Instr(String1,string2) > 0
>
> When String1 is less than 4000 characters the query works, when this is
> increased to 6000 characters, I get the error message "ORA-01460:
> unimplemented or unreasonable conversion requested". I have checked the
> reference data and it says that a string up 32767 charcaters can be handled
> in Pl/SQL.
>
> Can somebody please explain why this is happening and how I can resolve it ?
>
> Thanks in Advance.
>
>

I already explained you should read the Reference Manual in cd.oracle. Did you see the bit where it listed restrictions on varchar2?

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