Thanks. I went one further and just converted the long to clob (alter table). I couldn't find another useful way to do anything with the long. Daniel Fink <Daniel.Fink To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx @Sun.COM> cc: Sent by: Subject: Re: Dratted LONG column oracle-l-bounce 06/25/2004 09:18 AM Please respond to oracle-l Thomas, I posted a solution to checking constraint conditions (also a long) for duplicates. The basic idea is to create a gtt with a clob, insert the long (using to_lob() function, then manipulate the resulting character 'string'. As long as you know that the data is character and only character, this should work. It's a cludge, but it does work. Regards, Daniel Fink Thomas Day wrote: > I have to do a select using the long column in the where clause. > > Of course that won't work. > > 7 million rows. Some of the long data is over 15,000 characters (people > like to write novels). > > I've tried to use the ANYDATA data type but I can't COPY into ANYDATA and I > can't SELECT (for insert) from a LONG. Any ideas (or being pointed in the > right direction) would be greatly appreciated. > ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html ----------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com ---------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe send email to: oracle-l-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx put 'unsubscribe' in the subject line. -- Archives are at //www.freelists.org/archives/oracle-l/ FAQ is at //www.freelists.org/help/fom-serve/cache/1.html -----------------------------------------------------------------