String literal too long [message #371600] |
Sun, 12 November 2000 12:09 |
Balaji
Messages: 102 Registered: October 2000
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I'm getting the error ORA-01704 which says String literal too long when I'm using the update statement to update a field with datatype set to LONG. How to overcome this problem. Someone please reply imdtly...
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Re: String literal too long [message #371655 is a reply to message #371600] |
Mon, 20 November 2000 13:54 |
John Dorlon
Messages: 3 Registered: November 2000
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Instead of this :
'really long string literal, blah, blah, blah'
Try this :
'really long ' || 'string literal ' || 'blah blah blah'
I have never had this error in PL/SQL development but I have seen it in other programming languages and this is how I get around it.
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