Sonja, this is bug. Promised to be fixed in 8.1.6, and back again :(
Workaround is to
create table .. as select .. OR simply create table, than insert...
HTH
Vadim Gorbounov
Oracle DBA
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Hi all!
Oracle 8.1.7 on WinNT.
When I try to copy one table from one schema to another I get this error
message.
ORA-01458: invalid length inside variable character string
Description is "very informative"
01458, 00000, "invalid length inside variable character string"
// *Cause:
// *Action:
This is what I did:
copy from [EMAIL PROTECTED]
to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
create abc using select * from abc;
Do you have any suggestions?
TIA,
Sonja
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