How to load a SQL Server Image datatype into Oracle

Question

I am trying to use the follwing procedure to transfer image datatypes from SQL Server into Oracle:
DECLARE
   v_update_string   VARCHAR2 (200)
      := 'select face from multiMax.dbo.CardHolderFaceTable where cardid = 246979';
   v_result          VARCHAR2 (32767)          := NULL;
   CURSOR sql_server_conn
   IS
      SELECT connection_name, user_name,
             securedata_pkg.decrypt_char (PASSWORD) PASSWORD
        FROM xxper.xxper_sql_server;
   s_rec             sql_server_conn%ROWTYPE;
BEGIN
   OPEN sql_server_conn;
   FETCH sql_server_conn
    INTO s_rec;
   CLOSE sql_server_conn;
   v_result :=
      xxper_sql_server_utils.runsqlserverquery (s_rec.connection_name,
                                                s_rec.user_name,
                                                s_rec.PASSWORD,
                                                v_update_string
   DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line (v_result);
   INSERT INTO scott_blob
        VALUES (v_result);
EXCEPTION
   WHEN OTHERS
   THEN
      DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line (SQLERRM);
END;This gives me 'ORA-06502: PL/SQL: numeric or value error: host bind array too small'
I can change to another column on the SQL Server side and transfer fine, just not with Image datatypes.
Not sure why this is happening, does anyone have any advice? Sorry, can't seem to post with my formatting intact.
Edited by: user7726970 on Jun 8, 2009 4:53 PM
Update, removing the 'DBMS_OUTPUT.put_line (v_result);' takes care of that error but no data is transferred. Confused.
Edited by: user7726970 on Jun 8, 2009 5:14 PM

Answer 1

hi,
thank you for the response.
when i call the sp using DBMS_HS_PASSTHROUGH, without parameters it works successfully, but with parameters it gives the following error
ORA-28500: connection from ORACLE to a non-Oracle system returned this message:
[Generic Connectivity Using ODBC][Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Invalid parameter number[Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver]Invalid Descriptor Index (SQL State: S1093; SQL Code: 0)
my code is,
declare
c INTEGER;
nr INTEGER;
begin
c := DBMS_HS_PASSTHROUGH.OPEN_CURSOR@hsa;
DBMS_HS_PASSTHROUGH.PARSE@hsa(c, 'Create_Receipt(?,?)');
DBMS_HS_PASSTHROUGH.BIND_VARIABLE@hsa(c,1,'abc');
DBMS_HS_PASSTHROUGH.BIND_VARIABLE@hsa(c,2,'xyz');
nr:=DBMS_HS_PASSTHROUGH.EXECUTE_NON_QUERY@hsa(c);
DBMS_HS_PASSTHROUGH.CLOSE_CURSOR@hsa(c);
end;
Create_Receipt is the sp which requires two parameters.
please give me a solution
thanking you
sreejith