Thanks to all who responded both on and off list. Seems there is a distinction between an empty CLOB and a NULL CLOB. I need to stop thinking of CLOBs as just big VARCHAR2s :-) Thanks Charlotte --- Charlotte Hammond <charlottejanehammond@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Date: Thu, 7 Sep 2006 03:24:00 -0700 (PDT) > From: Charlotte Hammond > <charlottejanehammond@xxxxxxxxx> > Subject: Null Clob or Isn't it? > To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > > Hi All, > > I'm new to working with CLOBs. Any ideas on what I'm > missing here? > > My query below returns a non-zero result: > > SELECT count(*) > FROM my_table > WHERE clob_column IS NOT NULL > AND LENGTH(clob_column) = 0; > > How can I have a CLOB column of length zero which is > not null? > > This is on 9.2.0.6 > > Thanks > Charlotte > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam > protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l