Insert into datatype long

How does one get a long string (around 10K) into an Oracle table using standard SQL?
The column datatype is "long" which can hold a ton. If the long string is passed in the VALUES statement the following error appears:

    ORA-01704 String literal too long

Is there any way to pass it in the VALUES clause?

Thanks in advance

Robert J. Sullivan
rjs_at_atl.ema.eds.com Received on Thu Sep 11 1997 - 00:00:00 CDT