Re: long datatype

thanks for the heads-up. We will one day get to 9i.

On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 23:08:46 +0100, Sybrand Bakker <gooiditweg_at_sybrandb.demon.nl> wrote:

>On Wed, 27 Nov 2002 19:18:51 GMT, meinhfxGARBAGE_at_hotmail.com (tony)
>wrote:
>
>>I have a table that has a long datatype for one of the columns. I
>>believe this was done so that there could be carriage returns stored
>>in the column. Anyway, I would like to find all occurrences in this
>>long field of "character string one" ane update the table with
>>"character string two". Of course I can't use builtin functions on
>>the long or even use it in the where clause. Is this possible in sql?
>>
>>
>>thanks
>
>No it isn't, unless you are using Oracle Intermedia (with the contains
>operator).
>You would better replace the long by a CLOB, the dbms_lob.instr
>function on the CLOB will do exactly want you want, and longs are
>going to disappear in the next major version from 9i
>
>Hth
>
>
>Sybrand Bakker, Senior Oracle DBA
>
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Received on Thu Nov 28 2002 - 08:51:04 CST