I have a bit of a dilemma here. We have a production table that has a long
datatype on it and for reasons
I won't get into cannot be converted to a clob for several more months.
I have a work table that has a clob on it as one of the columns. I need to
copy the row from the clob table into the table with the long.
This is all done in a stored procedure that gets called when needed. I go
through a loop that parses the
clob into varchar2 chunks and then concatenates them into a plsql long
datatype. Problem is a plsql long
datatype can only be 32k. Some of the clobs are longer and thus the
problem.
There are built-in functions to convert/load from a long to a clob but I
haven't been able to find a way of going the other way.
Longs on tables can hold 2gig but a plsql long can only handle 32k.
Does anyone out there have any ideas how I could do this?
I have tried every possible scenario I can think of with no success.
Thanks for listening, Gary
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Received on Mon Oct 18 2004 - 16:37:54 CDT
