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 TO_CHAR(SUBSTR(long data type field, 1, 250))  but
still gave me the same result.  Tried TO_VARCHAR2 but to no avail.

Thanks,
Mark

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