> The NULL is the problem because Oracle doesn't know what datatype, scale,
or
> precision you want the PROVIDER column to be. And, as the error message
> states, "zero-length columns" are not permitted...
>
> How about breaking it up into two statements: a CREATE TABLE followed by
an
> INSERT ... SELECT?
IIRC, it is also possible to use CAST in such statement to set a datatype to
a column.
Tanel.
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