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Re: Would like to do .... LIKE '%fred%' on LONG column

From: Chris Bigenwald <chris_bigenwald_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Oct 1998 21:01:54 -0400
Message-ID: <362e846e.0@isc-newsserver.isc.rit.edu>


You have to use dynamic sql (see DBMS_SQL package) and process the long in chunks. Hopefully your column is a LONG and not a LONG RAW, because then you're really out of luck. Oracle7 has support for dynamic sql.

Jeremy Ovenden wrote in message <70l77e$i8u$1_at_newnews.global.net.uk>...
>Does this imply that you CAN do it on 8?
>Ian Hughes wrote in message <362DDF78.8C3EC036_at_capgemini.co.uk>...
>>You can't do this with LONGs in v7 - you can't actually do much with LONGS
>in
>>v7.
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>>Georg Verweyen wrote:
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>>> Paul Smith wrote:
>>> >
>>> > I would like to add a where clause to a select on a long column, but
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Received on Wed Oct 21 1998 - 20:01:54 CDT

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