Re: CLOB in select?

In article <9oa766$r0s$00$1_at_news.t-online.com>, "Michael says...
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>Hi,
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>i am having a table, where long text is stored in a CLOB-field. When i am
>sending the query like:
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>select * from Scott.TEST WHERE xml_doc LIKE 'test' ;
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>i am getting the error ORA-00932.
>The oracle-reference is describing, that LONG-datatypes cannot be used in
>the where-clause. Is it the same with CLOB-datatype?
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>Thanks in advance, Michael
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In 8i and before, you cannot do that. You would have to

select * from scott.test where dbms_lob.instr( xml_doc, 'test' ) > 0;

In 9i, you can use LIKE on a clob.

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