Long Datatypes in Reports

I have a field of long datatype in a table. I need to display the first 200 characters of this field in a report.
How can I do this. If it is thru Placeholder columns can you explkain in detail how I should go about this.
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It was in the 8i migration guide (http://download-uk.oracle.com/docs/cd/A87860_01/doc/server.817/a86632/migaftrm.htm#6573), but we decided to get to 10g first and then take care of it (since we did a 7 to 10 upgrade in two steps, 7->8 and 8->10).
So basically I should just leave the SYSTEM tablespace objects alone then? I only tried the system objects conversion on a test database, and since the non-system objects were fine, we converted them on production but left the system ones alone.

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Hello to all
I want create read only materialized view replication environment two of our tables have LONG datatype when i create materialized view against on them
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I have gotten this to work in the past l had to create a PL/SQL function that you can use to extract the character data from the long column and use that to
as part of the function you will need to pass in the columns of the table that will identify the unique records so you can pick out the long column
example function
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(pass in the primary key columns for the table)
RETURN VARCHAR2
IS
v_long VARCHAR2(32767) ;
BEGIN
BEGIN
-- need to select the long column into the PL/SQL variable
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INTO v_long
FROM MDB.TOAD_PLAN_TABLE
WHERE key_columns = passed columns ;
EXCEPTION
WHEN OTHERS THEN
IF SQLCODE = '-01406' THEN
NULL ;
ELSE
RAISE ;
END IF ;
END ;
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END ;
Then when you create the materialized view utilize that function on the long column.
create or replace materialized view MDB.TOAD_PLAN_TABLE TABLESPACE aramis REFRESH FORCE WITH ROWID
AS
SELECT column1, .... columnx,
MDB.TOAD_PLAN_LONG_CONV@arahisto (primary key column list) as long_column_name
FROM MDB.TOAD_PLAN_TABLE@arahisto ;
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Mike

HT5429 How long after you report a problem does it take for the fix to be picked up in maps?

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Apple does not do the GIS data for maps. That comes from 3rd party vendors like Tom Tom. I have read it takes some time to update map data. The only thing you can do is report it.
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I happen to have an Epson printer as well - WorkForce 645 - that does show the supply levels.
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paltform is only 4k? I looked up some Oracle
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Hi,
how did you figure out, the size of long?
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HTH
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It would have helped if you could have posted sample data.
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2       (SELECT '09:12:33' start_time, '12:30:33' end_time
3          FROM DUAL
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6          FROM DUAL)
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11                  )
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14    FROM test_tab
15 /
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