Oracle-L: RE: Problem with LONG column

From: <Jared.Still_at_radisys.com>
Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 12:34:31 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.00544E13.20030205123431@fatcity.com>

Dennis,

PL/SQL cannot directly deal with longs > 32k.

There *is* a way to do with global temporary tables and the to_lob() function, but it won't be nearly as fast as just using 'copy'.

Jared

DENNIS WILLIAMS <DWILLIAMS_at_LIFETOUCH.COM> Sent by: root_at_fatcity.com
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Babu - There are two ways I can think of to do this.

Write a small PL/SQL procedure.
Use the SQL*Plus COPY command. You will probably use the method that is more familiar to you. Have you used either PL/SQL or SQL*Plus COPY before?

Dennis Williams
DBA, 40%OCP
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com

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Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 4:24 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Hi everyone

One of my development team is working on ORACLE 8 on NT (Because of client requirement they are working on that version). One Table was created with wrong column name. Now they wanted me to correct the column name. But real problem is one column of that table is LONG data type. So I was unable to use
Insert into ... Select .... statement. Any suggestions in this regard highly appreciated.

thanks
Banarasi Babu T
OCP, DBA
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