I am doing this now.  In a very lame and inneffecient way.  I wrote a cursor
and am taking my LOB into a really long VARCHAR2(10000) or whatever variable
then substringing it out into several smaller VARCHAR2(4000) fields.  It
isn't pretty, but it is working without errors ....

adam



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Anybody have any Idee how to conevrt a LONG datatype to char/varchar

Regards
JL
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