Re: Dratted LONG column

  • From: Thomas Day <tday6@xxxxxxx>
  • To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Fri, 25 Jun 2004 09:29:02 -0400

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.




                                                                                
                                                       
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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.
>


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