ORA-01461 - Inserting pound sign

Wonder if anyone can help with this issue?
I'm running Oracle Forms [32 Bit] Version 10.1.2.0.2 (Production) with OC4J 10.1.2.0.2 against Oracle database version 11.1.0.7.0. where the NLS_CHARACTERSET on the database is AL32UTF8.
NLS_LANG on my machine is:
     SQL> @.[%NLS_LANG%].
     SP2-0310: unable to open file ".[AMERICAN_AMERICA.WE8MSWIN1252]..sql"
     SQL>
I have a form with a non database block containing a push button and text item field, Data Type - CHAR, Maximum Length - 1000, Data Length Semantics - Null
create table amc_pound_test
( apt_id number
, text1 varchar(2000)
Using the button with a When-Button-Pressed trigger I try to insert the text, "£1", into the above table using the following code:
     DECLARE
          aSeq Number;
     BEGIN
          Select NVL(MAX(Apt_Id),0) + 1
          Into aSeq
          From AMC_POUND_TEST;
          Insert Into AMC_POUND_TEST
          ( apt_id
          , text1
          Values
          ( aSeq
          , 'Direct: '||:block3.text1
          commit;
          insert_rec(:block3.text1);
     END;
Where insert_rec is a program unit defined as:
     PROCEDURE insert_rec ( pi_Text1 amc_pound_test.Text1%TYPE ) IS
          aSeq Number;
     BEGIN
          Select NVL(MAX(Apt_Id),0) + 1
          Into aSeq
          From AMC_POUND_TEST;
     INSERT INTO AMC_POUND_TEST
     ( Apt_Id
     , Text1
     VALUES
     ( aSeq
     , 'Via Proc: '||pi_Text1
     commit;
     END;
When the Maximum Length of field on the form (:block3.text1) is set to 1000 or less both inserts work fine.
Once the Maximum Length is increased to more than 1000, e.g. 1001, 1333, 2000 the insert via the Insert_Rec procedure fails with an ORA-01461 error.
However, if I remove the pound sign, both inserts work fine!
Any ideas?
Many Thanks
Anton

Seems to be related to Oracle Bug 5143833.
I'll update if the workaround to set the NLS_LANG to UTF8 works on customer site.

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I am trying to create a reportWhen asking a question about "reports" it's firstly essential to differentiate between standard and interactive reports. Which is it?
but get a ORA-01461: can bind a LONG value only for insert into a LONG column error.Where and when do you get this error? When creating the report? Or running it?
There's also an obvious bug (repeated many times):
and a.festival_year = ':P6_YEAR'
ORDER BY total, a.ID DESC NULLS LAST)
WHERE Stu_Rank <= (select hb_piccolo from festival_years
               where year = ':P6_YEAR')
...<tt>':P6_YEAR'</tt> is a literal string, not a bind variable reference. <tt>':P6_YEAR'</tt> seems an unlikely value for <tt>festival_year</tt> and <tt>year</tt> values. It should be:
and a.festival_year = :P6_YEAR
ORDER BY total, a.ID DESC NULLS LAST)
WHERE Stu_Rank <= (select hb_piccolo from festival_years
               where year = :P6_YEAR)
...or even better:
and a.festival_year = to_number(:P6_YEAR)
ORDER BY total, a.ID DESC NULLS LAST)
WHERE Stu_Rank <= (select hb_piccolo from festival_years
               where year = to_number(:P6_YEAR))
...if the <tt>festival_year</tt> and <tt>year</tt> columns are of type NUMBER. There's a possibility that this bug is in fact the source of your error...
Furthermore, this is a long piece of SQL. It may be that APEX can't cope with the length. However it's also very repetitive: we see the same SQL pattern repeated many times and UNIONed together. One way to reduce the length of the query would be to replace some (or all) of those repeating patterns. This will not only make the query more APEX-friendly, but it will probably be more efficient and easier to maintain too.
I recommend that you Re: 2. How do I ask a question on the forums? that will enable others to have a go at this. Reproducing the app on apex.oracle.com and posting guest developer credentials would also be helpful.

Weird exception in 12c (ORA-01461: can bind a LONG value only for insert into a LONG column)

I have a Windows app that accesses an Oracle 12c database via ODBC (the driver version is 12.01.00.01).
I have a table that has a key column named REGION_ID (NVARCHAR2(9)), and about a dozen other columns, three of which are named REGION1, REGION2, and REGION3, all of type NVARCHAR2(40).
When I try to insert a string into the REGION1 field that's greater than 9 characters (the length of REGION_ID), I get an ORA-01461 error ('Can bind a LONG value only for insert into a LONG column). If I define the length of REGION_ID to be NVARCHAR2(15), then I can add strings to the REGION1 field with a length up to 15 before I get the ORA-01461 exception again. Oddly, if I change the REGION1 column name to REGIONONE, I do not get any errors, and everything works fine. It's almost as if the column name REGION1 is being confused with REGION_ID behind the scenes.
Any ideas? I’m using SQLBindParameter to bind the columns, and all of the calls succeed. I get the exception when I execute the insert statement. This same code worked for previous versions of Oracle (11g, 10g, and 9i). And if I use an 11g client driver against the 12c server, I do not get the exception.
Thanks!

Sorry, I was just now able to install the patch for bug 18232462, and it did indeed solve the issue I described above. Thanks!

APEX 4.0.1 ORA-01461: can bind a LONG value only for insert into a LONG col

Hello,
I tried to use the "Database Object Dependencies" in the "Utilties"-section to get an idea of what objects are used in a application. But I got the following error:
ORA-01461: can bind a LONG value only for insert into a LONG column
The application consists of 100+ pages and uses abt. 10 schemas. I'm using APEX 4.0.1 on a 10.2.0.4 DB.
Doing this on a small application there are no errors.
Any hint would be welcome to solve this error.

Any Thoughts?

Receiving ora-01461 when trying to insert

Hello,
       I have a form with multiple rows of data, i wrote a loop statement that inserts data into another table. When i test the statement from SQL prompt, everything works with no problems. however, when i added to the save button, i am receiving the Ora-01461 error. why is that? the description from what i find doesn't seem to fit with what i'm doing. any thoughts? I'm using Oracle Forms 10g and writing to an 11g database.
thank you,
steven

commit_form; --commit the form first so that any changes will be applied to the database, prior to being copied over to destination table.
declare
     cursor c_bullet is
          select SL_3_BULLET_NBR, SL_3_PREFACE_BULLET, SL_3_PREFACE_DATE_INPUT, SL_3_SUB_CAT_NBR
          from PARKER.SL_3_PREFACE_DEFAULTS;
v_bullet_nbr      PARKER.TEMP_PREFACE_BULLET.SL_3_BULLET_NBR%TYPE;
v_bullet              PARKER.TEMP_PREFACE_BULLET.SL_3_BULLET%TYPE;
v_date_input     PARKER.TEMP_PREFACE_BULLET.SL_3_DATE_INPUT%TYPE;
v_sub_cat          PARKER.TEMP_PREFACE_BULLET.SL_3_SUB_CAT_NBR%TYPE;
v_sl3_idn           PARKER.TEMP_PREFACE_BULLET.SL_3_IDN%TYPE;
error_msg varchar2(300);
begin
     v_sl3_idn := 'SL-3-11653A' -- for testing purposes, will be filled from a global variable that the user inputs.
open c_bullet;
loop
fetch c_bullet into v_bullet_nbr, v_bullet, v_date_input, v_sub_cat;
exit when c_bullet%notfound;
if (v_bullet_nbr <= 30) then
     insert into PARKER.TEMP_PREFACE_BULLET (sl_3_preface_bullet, sl_3_preface_date_input, sl_3_bullet_nbr, sl_3_sub_cat_nbr)
     values (v_bullet, v_date_input, v_bullet_nbr, v_sub_cat);
end if;
commit;
end loop;
close c_bullet;
end;

ORA-01461 when trying to insert text 4000 characters into a CLOB column

I work on a Windows application that connects to databases using ODBC. I'm currently working on adding Oracle support to the application, but I'm running into a lot of problems inserting strings of more than 4000 characters into CLOB columns. First, I tried to do that directly using code similar to the following (setup, cleanup, and error checking snipped for clarity).
SQLHDBC hDbc;
SQLHSTMT hStmt;
unsigned char query[200];
SQLAllocStmt(hDbc, &hStmt);
strcpy(query,"INSERT INTO test_table (col_clob, col_int) ('long string', 1)");
SQLExecDirect(hStmt,query,strlen(query));
Of course, "long string" was really a string of more than 4000 characters. When I did that, I got an error indicating that I needed to use bind parameters for strings that long. However, bind parameters don't seem to work either. I changed my code to something like the following:
SQLHDBC hDbc;
SQLHSTMT hStmt;
unsigned char query[200];
+unsigned char *str=NULL;+
int str_size;
SQLAllocStmt(hDbc, &hStmt);
strcpy(query,"INSERT INTO test_table (col_clob, col_int) (:strvar, 1)");
SQLPrepare(hStmt,query,SQL_NTS);
str = (unsigned char*)malloc(6000 * sizeof(unsigned char));
SQLBindParameter(hStmt, 1, SQL_PARAM_INPUT, SQL_C_CHAR, SQL_VARBINARY, 0, 0, str, sizeof(str), &str_size);
strcpy(str,'long_string');
str_size = SQL_NTS;
SQLExecute(hStmt);
This code works fine when 'long_string' is less than 4000 characters. When it's greater than that, I get the following error:
+[Oracle][ODBC][Ora]ORA-01461: can bind a LONG value only for insert into a LONG column+
I'm using Visual Studio.NET 2003 on Windows XP, and Oracle client 11.1.0.6.0. My server version is as follows:
SQL> select * from v$version;
BANNER
Oracle Database 10g Express Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Product
PL/SQL Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
CORE 10.2.0.1.0 Production
TNS for Linux: Version 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
NLSRTL Version 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
I thought I read somewhere that this is a known bug with Oracle 10.2.0.1.0, but I can't seem to find the reference now. Can anyone confirm this or provide some assistance with this problem? Frankly, it seems kind of ridiculous that I can't do something as simple as inserting a reasonably sized amount of text into a CLOB column. I'm considering using BFILEs instead, but that would be kind of a pain to fit into our application, so I'd prefer not to do this if at all possible.
Thanks in advance for any help.

I found this link referring to a similar problem that was apparently fixed in version 10.2.0.4 of the server: ORA-01461: can bind a LONG value only for insert into a LONG column Should I try to upgrade the server and see if that fixes things?

ORA-01461 can bind a LONG value only for insert into a LONG

I Use ODP.net Insert and update Image files to Oralce blob columns(Oracle8i Server,ora92 client),
When the files larger than 4000 characters,It doesn't work.error:ORA-01461 can bind a LONG value only for insert into a LONG
My Vb.net code:
Dim dlg As OpenFileDialog
Dim strFileName() As String
Dim fsBLOB As System.IO.FileStream
Dim Adapter As OracleDataAdapter
Dim ds As New DataSet
Dim row As DataRow
Dim cb As OracleCommandBuilder
Dim bytes() As Byte
dlg = New OpenFileDialog
dlg.Filter = "Import File (*.*)|*.*"
Adapter = New OracleDataAdapter("select * from a_blob_contents where 1=0", Me.OraConnection)
Adapter.MissingSchemaAction = MissingSchemaAction.AddWithKey
Adapter.FillSchema(ds, SchemaType.Source, "BLOB")
cb = New OracleCommandBuilder(Adapter)
If dlg.ShowDialog() = DialogResult.OK Then
strFileName = dlg.FileNames()
Dim loopCount As Integer
For loopCount = 0 To strFileName.GetLength(0) - 1
row = ds.Tables("BLOB").NewRow()
row("BLOB_ID") = GetMaxBh("A_BLOB_CONTENTS", "BLOB_ID")
row("FILE_ID") = FileID
row("FILE_TYPE") = FileType
Dim file_name As String
file_name = strFileName(loopCount)
file_name = file_name.Substring(file_name.LastIndexOf("\") + 1, file_name.Length - file_name.LastIndexOf("\") - 1)
row("BLOB_NAME") = file_name
fsBLOB = New FileStream(strFileName(loopCount), FileMode.Open, FileAccess.Read)
ReDim bytes(fsBLOB.Length)
fsBLOB.Read(bytes, 0, System.Convert.ToInt32(fsBLOB.Length))
fsBLOB.Close()
row("blob_contents") = bytes
row("user_code") = Global.user_code
row("Operate_date") = Now
ds.Tables("BLOB").Rows.Add(row)
Next
Try
Adapter.Update(ds, "BLOB")
Catch ex As Exception
MessageBox.Show(ex.Message)
End Try
End If
I'll appreciate for anyone who can help me solve this problem.

Hi Zhenquan,
The issue is that you can not direct insert more than 4K (as you have discovered). Two methods I use in this situation are:
1) sql statement or procedure that returns a lob locator into an ODP.NET OracleBlob parameter such as:
insert into the_table (primary_key, blob_column) values (pk_value, empty_blob()) returning blob_column into :blob_parameter.
Once you have the OracleBlob you should be able to write/update the data.
2) use an anonymous pl/sql block or package that uses the dbms_lob supplied package to work with the LOB.
Here is a simple console example...
SQL> create table blob_test
2 (
3 blob_id number,
4 blob_data blob,
5 constraint blob_test_pk primary key (blob_id)
6 )
7 tablespace users;
Table created.
Sub Main()
Dim strFileName As String = "c:\temp\testimage.jpg"
Dim fsBlob As FileStream = New FileStream(strFileName, FileMode.Open)
Dim bytes(fsBlob.Length) As Byte
fsBlob.Read(bytes, 0, fsBlob.Length)
fsBlob.Close()
Dim con As OracleConnection = New OracleConnection("User Id=/; Data Source=lt8i")
con.Open()
Dim trans As OracleTransaction = con.BeginTransaction()
Dim sql As String = "insert into blob_test (blob_id, blob_data) values (1,empty_blob()) returning blob_data into :blob_parameter"
Dim blob_parameter As OracleParameter = New OracleParameter
blob_parameter.OracleDbType = OracleDbType.Blob
blob_parameter.Direction = ParameterDirection.InputOutput
Dim cmd As OracleCommand = New OracleCommand(sql, con)
cmd.Parameters.Add(blob_parameter)
cmd.ExecuteNonQuery()
Dim blob As OracleBlob = blob_parameter.Value
blob.Write(bytes, 0, bytes.Length)
sql = "update blob_test set blob_data = :blob_parameter where blob_id = 1"
cmd.CommandText = sql
blob_parameter.Value = blob
cmd.ExecuteNonQuery()
trans.Commit()
End Sub
This sample was tossed together pretty quickly, so it is not a complete, bullet-proof sample, but hopefully it will give you what you need to get started. The 'testimage.jpg' file is just over 5MB in size.
Hope that helps,
Mark
=======================================
Mark A. Williams
Oracle DBA
Author, Professional .NET Oracle Programming
http://www.apress.com/book/bookDisplay.html?bID=378

ORA-01461: can bind a LONG value only for insert into a LONG column ORA-020

Getting error --
ORA-01461: can bind a LONG value only for insert into a LONG column ORA-02063: preceding line from APPS
A page has 3 fields and a Add button
(1) first field is a LOV "select with submit"
(2) second field is getting its value from select statement with where clause = ID selected from field1
(3) field 3 is the value of field1
In After submit Process , I write simple insert as follows in the
BEGIn
INSERT INTO TABLE_NAME (ELEMENT_NAME,ELEMENT_TYPE_ID )
VALUES (:P3_NAME ,to_number(:P3_ELEMENT_TYPE_ID));
COMMIT;
END;
when i click on Add i get the error above

try doing the bind locally before executing the remote dml...
declare
l_long long := :P3_NAME;
begin
insert into table_name (ELEMENT_NAME,ELEMENT_TYPE_ID )
values (l_long ,to_number(:P3_ELEMENT_TYPE_ID));
end;
...and if that doesn't work, please let us know the definition of you TABLE_NAME table.
thanks,
raj

ORA-01461: can bind a LONG value only for insert into a LONG column - Issue

We are getting an error from Oracle DB --- Cause: java.sql.SQLException: ORA-01461: can bind a LONG value only for insert into a LONG column
The application was working fine with Oracle 10.2.0.4 and ojbc14 driver 10.2.0.1 Error occurs only after an upgrade to Oracle 10g 10.2.0.5. So after some googling, we found that a driver upgrade would eliminate this error. So the 10.2.0.5 version of the driver was used. But the ORA error still occurs. The readme of ojdb14.jar specified this - BUG 8847022 - ORA-01461: CAN BIND A LONG VALUE ONLY FOR INSERT INTO A LONG COLUMN
The problem is that we are not able to reproduce this using a sample program however it is happening consistently in the client environment.
we get the error ORA-01461, when the oracle version is upgraded to 10.2.0.5. This error occurs when we try to insert a file(BLOB) data with the file length greater than 4KB to a table.
Exception trace
uncategorized SQLException for SQL []; SQL state [72000]; error code [1461];
--- The error occurred in nl/sss/gict/mcb/data/dao/config/StateQueries.xml.
--- The error occurred while applying a parameter map.
--- Check the setReceivedFile-InlineParameterMap.
--- Check the statement (update failed).
--- Cause: java.sql.SQLException: ORA-01461: can bind a LONG value only for insert into a LONG column
; nested exception is com.ibatis.common.jdbc.exception.NestedSQLException:
--- The error occurred in nl/sss/gict/mcb/data/dao/config/StateQueries.xml.
--- The error occurred while applying a parameter map.
--- Check the setReceivedFile-InlineParameterMap.
--- Check the statement (update failed).
--- Cause: java.sql.SQLException: ORA-01461: can bind a LONG value only for insert into a LONG column
Oracle version installed in acceptance:
1 Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.5.0 - 64bi
2 PL/SQL Release 10.2.0.5.0 - Production
3 CORE 10.2.0.5.0 Production
4 TNS for Linux: Version 10.2.0.5.0 - Production
5 NLSRTL Version 10.2.0.5.0 - Production

Is the server running Java 1.4? If it is Java 5 or higher there is no need to keep using OJDBC14, you can upgrade to OJDBC5.
If you cannot do that, then I ask you: why make this post? What are you expecting someone to do? Your problem is with the OJDBC driver, you are not going to get tech support for it in this Java programming forum.

Why this Error comes "ORA-01461: can bind a LONG value only for insert into

I'm using Oracle 9.2 with Weblogic 8 server. After Googling i got to resolve this issue "ORA-01461: can bind a LONG value only for insert into a LONG column" by adding : oracle.jdbc.RetainV9LongBindBehavior=true in server properties for the datasource.
But why did this error come and after keeping the above property why did this error go away ?
Can anyone help me on this.....

You have an error in the code:
1. you don't provide a value for 'what' - you have to tell Oracle what it should execute when it submits the job.
And remember - with ISUBMIT the next_date parameter has datatype VARCHAR2 - SUBMIT uses datatype DATE. So make sure you provide a VARCHAR2 value and do not rely on implicit conversion.
>
PROCEDURE DBMS_JOB.ISUBMIT
(job IN BINARY_INTEGER
,what IN VARCHAR2
,next_date IN VARCHAR2
,interval IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT 'null'
,no_parse IN BOOLEAN DEFAULT FALSE);
PROCEDURE DBMS_JOB.SUBMIT
(job OUT BINARY_INTEGER
,what IN VARCHAR2
,next_date IN DATE DEFAULT SYSDATE
,interval IN VARCHAR2 DEFAULT 'null'
,no_parse IN BOOLEAN DEFAULT FALSE);

ORA-01461: can bind a LONG value only for insert into a LONG column error

Oracle 11g R1 RHEL 5 64bit (Apex 3.1)
Hi all,
I am having a tough time with this error:
ORA-01461: can bind a LONG value only for insert into a LONG column
ORA-06512: at "FPRCHR.PKG_TRIGGER_EMAIL", line 39
ORA-06512: at "ISWRNEW.PKG_NOTIFICATION", line 310
ORA-06512: at "ISWRNEW.PKG_NOTIFICATION", line 1745
ORA-06512: at line 1
The FPRCHR.PKG_TRIGGER_EMAIL looks like follows:
INSERT INTO fprchr.trigger_email
(trigger_email_rid,
email_to,
email_from,
email_body,
email_subject,
email_cc,
email_bcc,
mime_type,
email_priority
VALUES (l_job,
p_recipients,
p_sender,
p_message,
p_subject,
p_cc,
p_bcc,
p_mime_type,
p_priority
execute immediate 'alter session set events ''10046 trace name context off''';
END submit;
It seems like the characters have exceeded the limit that VARCHAR2 can handle? What other data type could I change the fprchr.trigger_email table to? Is that all that is needed?
Thanks.

It seems like the characters have exceeded the limit that VARCHAR2 can handle? What other data type could I change the fprchr.trigger_email table to? Is that all that is needed?
Did you try with clob data type?
Regards.
Satyaki De

ORA-01461: can bind a LONG value only for insert into a LONG column-Update

Hi,
I'm using Oracle 9.2 with Weblogic 8 server. There are two columns OBJ_EVIDENCE_COMP - varchar2(4000 bytes), Descriptiion - varchar2(4000 bytes) in a table.I'm getting the Data from that table and again I'm updating into the same table with same data after updating the Data object in java.
I am getting the following error
"Java.sql.SQLException: ORA-01461: can bind a LONG value only for insert into a LONG column"
Can some one let me know why this error occurs ? Please do let me know if you want any other information. Below is my SQL Query:
* @jc:sql statement::
* UPDATE CORRECTIVE_ACTION SET
* CA_ID = {dt.caId},
* CA_NBR = {dt.caNbr},
* CAPA_PLAN_ID = {dt.capaPlanId},
* OBJ_EVIDENCE_COMP = {dt.objEvidenceComp},
* APPLICABLE_ELSE_WHERE = {dt.applicableElseWhere},
* JUSTIFICATION = {dt.justification},
* MOE = {dt.moe},
* COMPLETION_DATE = {dt.completionDate},
* EXTENSION_DUE_DATE = {dt.extensionDueDate},
* STATUS_CD = {dt.statusCd},
* SYSTEM_STATUS_CD = {dt.systemStatusCd},
* ROOT_CAUSE_CD = {dt.rootCauseCd},
* DESCRIPTION = {dt.description},
* CA_TYPE = {dt.caType},
* CREATED_BY = {dt.createdBy},
* CREATED_DATE = {dt.createdDate},
* MODIFIED_BY = {dt.modifiedBy},
* MODIFIED_DATE = {dt.modifiedDate},
* COMPLETION_DUE_DATE = {dt.completionDueDate}
* WHERE CA_ID = {dt.caId}
In the above update statement if i remove one among the 2 columns mentioned then it is getting updated properly......
Regards,
Bharat
Edited by: 908508 on Jan 17, 2012 2:18 AM

I am occasionally getting this error in an Oracle 11g database
I use Rogue Wave to insert:
connection.beginTransaction ("bulkInsertEvents");
RWDBTBuffer <RWCString> symbols (symbol, rowCount);
RWDBTBuffer <RWDateTime> timeStamps (timeStamp, rowCount);
RWDBTBuffer <int> eventCounts (eventCount, rowCount);
RWDBTBuffer <RWCString> events (event, rowCount);
RWDBBulkInserter ins = table.bulkInserter (connection);
ins << symbols << timeStamps << eventCounts << events;
ins.execute ();
connection.commitTransaction ("bulkInsertEvents");
catch (RWxmsg & exception)
cout << Logging::getProgramName () << " " << exception.why () << endl;
throw "Failed to do bulk insert events to DBTools.";
Some of the inserts give me
"[SERVERERROR] ORA-01461: can bind a LONG value only for insert into a LONG column"
the table structure is
SYMBOL     VARCHAR2(33 BYTE)
DATEANDTIME     TIMESTAMP(6)
NUMOFEVENTS     NUMBER
EVENTS     VARCHAR2(4000 BYTE)

Insert Record Via Dblink Get Error ORA-01461: can bind a LONG value only

Hi
When i try to insert record in Htmldb 2.0 Form to a table that is locate in remote DB via DBlink , I get the error ORA-01461: can bind a LONG value only for insert into a LONG column ORA-02063: preceding line from SAPREPOS.ADBAZAN.COM.
My command is insert into [email protected]
(OVED_ID,
REPMONTH,
REPYEAR,
SAPDATE,
SAPTIME)
values
(:P1_XOVED_ID,
:P1_XMANTHLY,
:P1_XYEAR,
to_char(sysdate,'DDMMYYYY'),
to_char(sysdate,'HH:MI AM'));
I try on local Table and it work OK.
I try with sqlplus to the remote DB and it works OK.
Need Help !!!
Thanks

Hi
When i try to insert record in Htmldb 2.0 Form to a table that is locate in remote DB via DBlink , I get the error ORA-01461: can bind a LONG value only for insert into a LONG column ORA-02063: preceding line from SAPREPOS.ADBAZAN.COM.
My command is insert into [email protected]
(OVED_ID,
REPMONTH,
REPYEAR,
SAPDATE,
SAPTIME)
values
(:P1_XOVED_ID,
:P1_XMANTHLY,
:P1_XYEAR,
to_char(sysdate,'DDMMYYYY'),
to_char(sysdate,'HH:MI AM'));
I try on local Table and it work OK.
I try with sqlplus to the remote DB and it works OK.
Need Help !!!
Thanks

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