RE: Long Problem??

From: Diana Duncan <dduncan_at_arsenaldigital.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 08:07:25 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.002CEF71.20010316071523@fatcity.com>

Maybe you can do it from within PL/SQL -- the maximum for a string literal in PL/SQL is 32K.

The only alternative that I know of is to use ProC or another external program. Anyone else know?

Diana

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Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2001 11:01 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Hello Gurus
This is my Oracle prblem.

there's a column with Long Datatype in a table in Oracle 8 i and I am inserting data into this table.

insert into Tname (longcol) values('aklajkhsajdsaj') The Long column is only allowing me to enter a max of 4000 characters as teh value. The minute the no of characters becomes > 4000, I get an error saying

ORA - 01704: String Literal too Long

I have to insert data into this freaking column, and its definetely gonna be > 4000 characters. help me

This is an SOS !!

Vishak

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