Re: How to select data from a LONG datatype

Ketan Patel wrote:
>
> Hi,
> For long data type in selection use "contains" instead
> of like. Before this set environment for sql*plus like
> " set long 5000 ".
>
> --- Rodd Holman <rodney.holman_at_lodgenet.com> wrote:
> > How do I get past the inconsistent datatypes error
> > on the following?
> >
> > select *
> > from dba_views
> > where owner = 'SA'
> > and text like '%/*%';
> >
> > We have some views that were migrated from 7.3.4 to
> > 8.0.5 and we suspect
> > that we
> > lost our hints in the migration and upgrade. I want
> > to find which views
> > had hints in the old system so that I can bring them
> > forward.
> >
> > Rodd Holman
> > --

... assuming that you have Intermedia, aka Context, running, and that it indexes the Oracle data dictionary. You cannot unfortunately apply anything but a Context query to a LONG, and unfortunately that is what, contrarily to package, procedure and function source, Oracle uses to store views (as well as trigger bodies, default values for columns and, out of memory, CHECK constraints).

This may not me the most elegant way to proceed, but IMHO a good, if brute force, workaround could be something like :

echo "set linesize <something large enough>

      set long <as big as linesize allows>
      select * from dba_views;
      exit" | sqlplus -s system/manager | grep '/*'

I assume of course that like so many people you have religiously kept MANAGER as password for SYSTEM :). And that you are running on a Unix box ..

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