You may want to look at the character set values for the source database. See the following article: http://vsadilovskiy.wordpress.com/2007/10/19/ora-01461-can-bind-a-long-val ue-only-for-insert-into-a-long-column/ _____ From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of TESTAJ3@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 8:26 AM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: anyone using bulk collection in pl/sql I'm running into an ORA-1461 error while loading data via bulk collection. I"ve dumped out all of the strings and none of them exceed any of the stated lengths in the in-memory table or the "real" table. oracle 9.2.0.8 on solaris 10. thanks, joe _______________________________________ Joe Testa, Oracle Certified Professional Senior Consultant Data Engineering and Administration Nationwide Investments (Work) 614-677-1668 (Cell) 614-312-6715 Interested in helping out your marriage? Ask me about "Weekend to Remember" Dec 11-13, 2009 here in Columbus.