Re: Problem calling Checksum from web application

A copy of this was sent to Tom Nestor <tnestor_at_ford.com> (if that email address didn't require changing) On Wed, 19 May 1999 10:50:06 -0400, you wrote:

>I am having a problem calling the Checksum function from a web
>application that we are writing. The statement looks like
>x := owa_opt_lock.checksum(stuff). The error I get is
>ORA00932-Inconsistent datatypes.
>WE don't see the problem and neither does
>oracle support who seems to have wroked quite hard on this.
>our database version is 7.3.4

What is 'stuff'?

Does it happen for all 'stuff' values?

can you post an entire plsql block that you would run in sqlplus to get this error?

See http://www.oracle.com/ideveloper/ for my column 'Digging-in to Oracle8i'...  

Thomas Kyte
tkyte_at_us.oracle.com
Oracle Service Industries
Reston, VA USA

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