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Inka,
I'm not even sure that that is the reason it works in the other account.. he's still digging into why and what. As soon as I have a real answer, I'll post it to the list
Rachel
--- Inka Bezdziecka <IBezdziecka_at_cupe.ca> wrote:
> Rachel,
> do you know which system privilege of resource did the trick?
> inka
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Sent: Friday, October 04, 2002 1:24 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
>
>
> Stephane,
>
> if there is a new function, then it is hidden so deeply in the docs
> that even I can't find it. And I'm pretty good and coming up with
> "creative" search patterns.
>
> ANYDATA is an object, a way of storing different types of data in a
> single column. You store the data type metadata with the column.
>
> More information on this... when the other DBA ran the PL/SQL routine
> in a different account which had "resource" instead of just "connect"
> privileges, it ran....
>
> interesting!
>
> Rachel
>
> --- Stephane Faroult <sfaroult_at_oriolecorp.com> wrote:
> > Rachel,
> >
> > First time I hear about the ANYDATA type but I like to share my
> > ignorance and I guess it must be something akin to a C 'void *' -
> ie
> > a pointer to 'something'. To bind properly, Oracle needs two things
> :
> > a) a pointer to the start of the memory area
> > b) something to tell how big this memory area is. Either it's a
> 'well
> > known' type, or you must use an end marker (typically, a '0' with
> > character strings), or you must explicitly give a size.
> >
> > IMHO Oracle blows up because b) is missing. If you can insert,
> there
> > must be some way of telling it how large the variable is. I can't
> see
> > why it would be specific to an update (except if the PL/SQL engine
> is
> > buggy, which obviously it is, but even more so than appears to the
> > eye). Are you sure that there is not some obscure new function ...
> ?
> >
> > HTH
> >
> >
>
>
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