Path: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com!newsmst01.news.prodigy.com!prodigy.com!pd7cy2so!shaw.ca!sn-xit-03!sn-xit-06!sn-post-02!sn-post-01!supernews.com!corp.supernews.com!not-for-mail From: Daniel Morgan Newsgroups: comp.databases.oracle.server Subject: Re: Perplexing ORA-01461 Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2003 10:02:53 -0800 Organization: ATS Message-ID: <1071252079.66421@yasure> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cache-Post-Path: yasure!unknown@oracle.advtechserv.com X-Cache: nntpcache 2.4.0b5 (see http://www.nntpcache.org/) X-Complaints-To: abuse@supernews.com Lines: 18 Xref: newssvr20.news.prodigy.com comp.databases.oracle.server:250000 Haximus wrote: > I'm working on a Forms 9i application, the db used is Oracle9i Enterprise > Edition 9.2.0.4.0 running on RedHat AS 3.0. I keep getting an ORA-01461 > error, which is defined as "can bind a LONG value only for insert into a > LONG column." The perplexing part is none of the columns in the table being > inserted are defined as LONG, nor are any of the variables I'm using. I've > searched metalink and tried some of the suggested fixes but no joy. How about CLOB? BLOB? etc? What data types do you have? -- Daniel Morgan http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/oad/oad_crs.asp http://www.outreach.washington.edu/ext/certificates/aoa/aoa_crs.asp damorgan@x.washington.edu (replace 'x' with a 'u' to reply)