Re: in () max expression list...

Jacqui Caren Jacqui Caren wrote:
>
> In article <FEz0GL.98G_at_ig.co.uk>, Jacqui Caren <jacqui_at_ig.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >I remember from the good ol' oracle7 days that
> >you were limited to circa 256 entries with a
> >
> > fieldname IN ( ...)
> >
> >expression list.
> >
> >Having hunted through the vast quantity :-) of
> >oracle docs I cannot find any references to the
> >limit for oracle 8 but tests have shown that
> >~350 entires seem to be no problem.
>
> So does anyone have knowledge of the limit (if any)
> with and 08 server?
>
> Jacqui
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A simple test would be:

spool file.lst
select 'select * from my_table where col in (' from dual union all
select rownum||','
from all_objects;
spool off

this will give you a nice query with a thousands on things in the "in" list...you should be able to find an upper bound if one exists...

HTH

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