Re: ORA-00932 inconsistant datatypes

Steffi Kollenz wrote:

> Hi,
> i try to execute the following select statement:
> "select URN from DocStore where VALUE like '%test%';"
> The table: column URN is type VARCHAR2, column VALUE is type LONG.
> I get the error ora-00932 inconsistant datatypes. Can anybody tell me
> how to make such a select statement on columns of type long?
> Thanks
> Steffi
>

You can't. At least not in PL/SQL and not in one step.

Go to http://asktom.oracle.com and look up LONG to CLOB.

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