Re: LONG Datatype and Substrings

Ahh, the joys of Long datatypes.

The best thing to do is avoid them.

Or convert them to LOB's.

You will have to use PL/SQL to fetch
pieces of the long into a variable,
search the variable, and do so until
the entire LONG has been searched.

Some fun eh?

Jared

On Tue, 16 May 2000, Stephen Dance wrote:

>
> I know there was a discussion on this on the list only the other day,
> but please can someone just update me on it.
>
> A developer has just asked how to select from a table where the
> condition part of the statement refers to a LONG datatype column. They
> then get ORA-00997 Illegal use of LONG datatype.
>
>
> Thanks
> STEVE
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Jared Still
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