RE: GETTING FIRST 250 CHARACTERS FROM A LONG DATATYPE

2001-07-05 Thread Ramasamy, Baskar
Mark, You could write a plsql by defiining a variable with 32K (like fetch_log_valuevarchar2(32760)) You could fetch the long data type column value into fetch_long_value variable after opening the cursor. After that you can use substr on this variable. Baskar -Original Message- Se

RE: GETTING FIRST 250 CHARACTERS FROM A LONG DATATYPE

2001-07-05 Thread Ramasamy, Baskar
Stephane, You could write a plsql by defiining a variable with 32K (like fetch_log_valuevarchar2(32760)) You could fetch the long data type column value into fetch_long_value variable after opening the cursor. After that you can use substr on this variable. Baskar -Original Message

Re: GETTING FIRST 250 CHARACTERS FROM A LONG DATATYPE

2001-07-05 Thread nlzanen1
Hi, In SQL*Plus "set long 250" Jack "Mark Liggayu"

Re: GETTING FIRST 250 CHARACTERS FROM A LONG DATATYPE

2001-07-04 Thread Stephane Faroult
Mark Liggayu wrote: > > HI GURUS, > > If I have a table that has a field with long data type and I want to get the > first 250 characters out of it how can I do it. I tried using SUBSTR(long > data type field, 1, 250) but it complained about "ORA-00932: inconsistent > datatypes". I then tried