Re: COPY command dieing - help

I ran into something like this on a client's system recently. They had a LONG in the table, and that won't come over with the COPY command. If that's the case here, then you need to use the TO_LOB() function to take it from LONG to CLOB on the fly.

As sometimes happens, the error message can be misleading.

Regards,
Chris Gait

> On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Shaw, John B wrote:
>
> > I am attempting to copy a table from a 8.1.6 db to 8.1.7. Most of the tables
> > have come across successfully. One table is having a problem.
> > The command:
> > copy from v55/v55_at_int to user/pwd_at_frog create DMF using select * from
> > DMF_at_int;
> > This table gives ora-00911 error (invalid character ? where? - this same
> > command worked on many other tables).
> > I manually created the table in the local db and tried to do an append of
> > the data
> > copy from v55/v55_at_int to user/pwd_at_frog append DMF using select * from
> > DMF_at_int;
> >
> > This causes sqlplus and sqlworksheet to die (this is on NT0
> > anybody have an idea of what's going on?
>
>

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