Re: CTAS and ora-1723

From: Tim Gorman <tim_at_sagelogix.com>
Date: Thu, 01 Jul 2004 16:48:04 -0600
Message-ID: <BD09F0C4.1795D%tim@sagelogix.com>

But datatype is only half the problem. The error message itself has to do with length, precision, scale, etc...

on 7/1/04 4:09 PM, Tanel P=F5der at tanel.poder.003_at_mail.ee wrote:

>> The NULL is the problem because Oracle doesn't know what datatype, scale= ,
> or

>> precision you want the PROVIDER column to be.  And, as the error message
>> states, "zero-length columns" are not permitted...
>>=20
>> How about breaking it up into two statements:  a CREATE TABLE followed b=

y
> an

>> INSERT ... SELECT?
>=20

> IIRC, it is also possible to use CAST in such statement to set a datatype=
to
> a column.

>=20

> Tanel.

>=20
>=20


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