On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 13:10:50 +0100, Peter J. Holzer wrote:

Hi Peter

> select dbms_lob.getlength(lob_column) as length from table ...
> to get the size of a LOB.

Thanx, but that didn't work either. Perhaps getlength() has the same
restrictions as lengthb()?

This is in SQL/Plus:

SQL> select dbms_lob.getlength(a_session) as length from sessions;
select dbms_lob.getlength(a_session) as length from sessions
                                       *
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00997: illegal use of LONG datatype

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Ron Savage, [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 15/12/2005
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