I need to copy the contents of a table into another table. Sounds easy,
right? Well, my problem is that one of the columns in the source table
is bound to be a LONG or LONG RAW, and the following syntax:
INSERT INTO NEWTAB
SELECT COL_A, COL_B, COL_LONG
FROM OLDTAB
fails with the error message:
ORA-00997: illegal use of LONG datatype
Since I need to use SQL to do this, does anyone know of any workaround?
(COPY won't work because it seems to be a SQL*Plus thing.)
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Michael J. Harper
mharper_at_well.sf.ca.us
