Hi Steven
I think you cannot do it in sql ( use a string liter that is longer than
2000 characters).
The work around is to use the bind variables.
For example VARCHAR2 variable in PL/SQL
drop table tlong;
create table tlong (a long);
declare
vlong VARCHAR2(32000);
begin
vlong := '
1234567890......................more that 2000 chars';
insert into tlong values (vlong);
end;
/
set long 10000000
select * from tlong;
With regards
Alex Afanassiev
Oracle DBA, TOC OPS/Internet.Operations
Tel: (03) 8 661 20 61
Fax: (03) 9 650 36 74
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steven Monaghan [SMTP:MonaghaS_at_mscdirect.com]
> Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2000 2:35 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Inserting into a long column
>
> We are getting the following error when inserting into a table:
>
> ORA-1704: string literal too long
>
> The field we are inserting into is a long, so the field can definitely
> handle the data. But, the insert statement does not seem to allow entry
> of
> a quoted string greater than 2000 characters in the quoted string.
>
> How do I get around this? Is there any way to do this in plain SQL, or do
> we need to use PL/SQL?
>
> Steve
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Received on Wed Sep 13 2000 - 20:10:19 CDT
