RE: Create Table Error

From: Amar Kumar Padhi <TS2017_at_emirates.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 16:33:29 +0400
Message-Id: <10742.126656@fatcity.com>

Not possible as long column exists.
One way:
create table without the long column and then add the long afterwords. create table x as select col1,col2,col3 from y where rownum < 1;; alter table x add col4 long;

Thanks,
Amar Kumar Padhi
Software Consultant.

-----Original Message-----
From: Heikki Jantunen [mailto:hjantunen_at_hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, January 15, 2001 4:06 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Create Table Error

Hi,

I am receiving this kind of error:

create table prop_md_user_defined_tmp as select * from wlcs_prop_md_user_defined where 1=2

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ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00997: illegal use of LONG datatype

any ideas how to fix...

I am using 8i

br
Hessu

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