Oops, my bad. Well I have limited experience with longs because I hate them with a passion. Whenever one of the developers says they are going to use long, I say "not on my database". You people are only making me feel better about that philosophy.
Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 2:30 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Dennis, Using VSize on a Long results in: ORA-00997: illegal use of LONG datatype Just tried in on Trigger_Body in DBA_Triggers. (8.1.7.0.0 on HP-UX). Jack C. Applewhite Database Administrator Austin Independent School District Austin, Texas 512.414.9715 (wk) 512.935.5929 (pager) [EMAIL PROTECTED] DENNIS WILLIAMS <DWILLIAMS@LIFETO To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L UCH.COM> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent by: cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Size of a Long Field 02/05/2003 01:29 PM Please respond to ORACLE-L Ed - Look up the function VSIZE in the documentation. Dennis Williams DBA, 40%OCP Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- Sent: Wednesday, February 05, 2003 8:53 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L How do you determine the size, in bytes, of a long field? Please. No tape measure jokes. Ed -- Author: DENNIS WILLIAMS INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: DENNIS WILLIAMS INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
