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

2001-07-05 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

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-

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