Re: Dynamic SQL

Depends how you are getting that 4,000 characters to the procedure, of course, but a pl/sql varchar2() can in principle be 32,000 bytes.

And if that isn't enough, you may have to fall back to dbms_sql which exposes a packaged type which is an array of varchar2(255) so that you can build, pass, and execute the array. (I think there's a sample of this on my web site).

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-----Original Message-----
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Date: 26 March 2002 18:58

|Hello
|I'm using variable sqlstr VARCHAR2(4000) in procedure to create
SELECT string.
|But the length of my SELECT * FROM .... is bigger than 4000 chars.
|
|Is there a way how to call OPEN my_cursor FOR sqlstr;
|for sqlstr longer than 4000 signs?
|
|JP

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