RE: (long and boring) converting long to lob - the easiest and fastest way ?

2003-09-12 Thread Siddharth Haldankar
PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tanel Poder Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 9:40 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: (long and boring) converting long to lob - the easiest and fastest way ?   Hm, yep, it seems it works only in insert select command (I tried an update with subquery

RE: converting long to lob - the easiest and fastest way ?

2003-09-11 Thread Govindan K
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Re: (long and boring) converting long to lob - the easiest and fastest way ?

2003-09-11 Thread Tanel Poder
hes, that way you'll save disk space (if you grow your table to 2X it's size, there's no way to reduce it without reorganization).   Cheers, Tanel.   ----- Original Message - From: Siddharth Haldankar To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003

RE: converting long to lob - the easiest and fastest way ?

2003-09-11 Thread Siddharth Haldankar
: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Siddharth Haldankar Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 3:44 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: converting long to lob - the easiest and fastest way ?   Hi Gurus,   How do I convert a long datatype to clob datatype. Say

RE: converting long to lob - the easiest and fastest way ?

2003-09-11 Thread Siddharth Haldankar
] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tanel Poder Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 4:59 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: converting long to lob - the easiest and fastest way ?   Sorry, I didn't notice in the end of your

Re: converting long to lob - the easiest and fastest way ?

2003-09-11 Thread Tanel Poder
nkar To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 1:14 PM Subject: converting long to lob - the easiest and fastest way ? Hi Gurus,   How do I convert a long datatype to clob datatype. Say Table A No   

Re: converting long to lob - the easiest and fastest way ?

2003-09-11 Thread Tanel Poder
tiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2003 1:14 PM Subject: converting long to lob - the easiest and fastest way ? Hi Gurus,   How do I convert a long datatype to clob datatype. Say Table A No        number

converting long to lob - the easiest and fastest way ?

2003-09-11 Thread Siddharth Haldankar
Hi Gurus,   How do I convert a long datatype to clob datatype. Say Table A No        number Col1     long Would like to convert to Table A No    number Col1  clob   Alter table A modify (col1 clob); Gives an error as inco