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Gary,
Just an idea - you can have multiple pl/sql long datatypes and concatenate them together in the insert statement like this:
CREATE TABLE tomtest(col1 LONG);
DECLARE
l_col1 LONG;
l_col2 LONG;
BEGIN
INSERT INTO tomtest(col1) VALUES(l_col1 || l_col2);
END;
So you could load up the multiple local columns and perform the insert.
Would this help?
Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional
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From: bonnergj_at_songs.sce.com [mailto:bonnergj_at_songs.sce.com]
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 5:44 PM
To: oracle-l_at_freelists.org
Subject: Getting a Clob into a Long
I have a bit of a dilemma here. We have a production table that has a long datatype on it and for reasons I won't get into cannot be converted to a clob for several more months. I have a work table that has a clob on it as one of the columns. I need to copy the row from the clob table into the table with the long. This is all done in a stored procedure that gets called when needed. I go through a loop that parses the clob into varchar2 chunks and then concatenates them into a plsql long datatype. Problem is a plsql long datatype can only be 32k. Some of the clobs are longer and thus the problem. There are built-in functions to convert/load from a long to a clob but I haven't been able to find a way of going the other way. Longs on tables can hold 2gig but a plsql long can only handle 32k. Does anyone out there have any ideas how I could do this? I have tried every possible scenario I can think of with no success. Thanks for listening, Gary
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