If you want to extract this data the way you want, I'd try perl dbi.
If your location doesn't have perl or the expertise, that could be a show
stopper though.
"Thomas Kellerer" <NNGNVRDSJEBN_at_spammotel.com> wrote in message
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> DA Morgan wrote on 09.12.2004 23:22:
> > you could try CASTing as a CLOB or alternatively CASTing as smaller
> > VARCHARs. For example:
> That gives me an "ORA-00932: inconsistent datatypes"
>
> Casting to a smaller varchar doesn't help, as it truncates the entries...
>
> > But I'd be fascinated to know why every column is defined as a
> > VARCHAR2(2000) and see if you can bring some sanity to the design
> > (assuming there isn't some valid reason for the size).
>
> Don't ask :) It's used to store large portion of textual information in
> different languages. Some of them are actually HTML fragments (that's why
> they are that big). I can image a several better ways of storing (and
> moving around) this kind of information, but we have inherited this system
> and are not able to change it.
> My (wild) guess is, that the original creators would have taken LONGs for
> every column if Oracle had only let them :)
>
> Thanks for your help.
>
> Cheers
> Thomas
>
Received on Sun Dec 12 2004 - 10:34:42 CST
