Ora-01461

Hi,
I am working in oracle 10g. i am inserting the records in a table from the appliaction(Java application). In that i am getting an error as
ORA-01461 .
DB - 10.2.0.1.0 (i am using LONG datatype for the column)
Kindly provide me a solution for this.
Rgds...

ORA-01461:     can bind a LONG value only for insert into a LONG column
Cause:     An attempt was made to insert a value from a LONG datatype into another datatype. This is not allowed.
Action:     Do not try to insert LONG datatypes into other types of columns.
As you say you are using LONG data type for the column, could you post the exact INSERT statement that is generated (of course, I am not looking for values here)?
Is your INSERT formed without a column list (like INSERT INTO TABLE VALUES (...) instead of INSERT INTO TABLE (col1, col2...) VALUES (....))? This could be the reason as columns won't match as expected.

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Thanks for quick response!!
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Caused by: org.springframework.jdbc.UncategorizedSQLException: PreparedStatementCallback; uncategorized SQLException for SQL [INSERT INTO tabl1(c1, c2, c3, c4, c5, c6, c7, c8, c9, c10, c11, c12, c13, c14, c15,c16(CLOBCOL),c17, c18, c19) SELECT c1,c2, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?, ? FROM table2 S JOIN table1 D ON S.c1 = D.c1 WHERE S.c2 = ? AND D.c5 = ? GROUP BY S.c1];
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where year = ':P6_YEAR')
UNION ALL
SELECT lname,fname,instrument,total
FROM
(SELECT lname, fname, a.instrument, a.total, DENSE_RANK() OVER
(ORDER BY a.total DESC,a.ID NULLS LAST) AS Stu_Rank
FROM band_students, festival_records A
JOIN festival_records B on a.ID = b.ID
where band_students.id = a.ID
and a.instrument = 'Trumpet'
and a.festival_year = ':P6_YEAR'
ORDER BY total, a.ID DESC NULLS LAST)
WHERE Stu_Rank <= (select hb_Trumpet from festival_years
where year = ':P6_YEAR')
UNION ALL
SELECT lname,fname,instrument,total
FROM
(SELECT lname, fname, a.instrument, a.total, DENSE_RANK() OVER
(ORDER BY a.total DESC,a.ID NULLS LAST) AS Stu_Rank
FROM band_students, festival_records A
JOIN festival_records B on a.ID = b.ID
where band_students.id = a.ID
and a.instrument = 'Trombone'
and a.festival_year = ':P6_YEAR'
ORDER BY total, a.ID DESC NULLS LAST)
WHERE Stu_Rank <= (select hb_Trombone from festival_years
where year = ':P6_YEAR')
UNION ALL
SELECT lname,fname,instrument,total
FROM
(SELECT lname, fname, a.instrument, a.total, DENSE_RANK() OVER
(ORDER BY a.total DESC,a.ID NULLS LAST) AS Stu_Rank
FROM band_students, festival_records A
JOIN festival_records B on a.ID = b.ID
where band_students.id = a.ID
and a.instrument = 'Trombone Bass'
and a.festival_year = ':P6_YEAR'
ORDER BY total, a.ID DESC NULLS LAST)
WHERE Stu_Rank <= (select hb_Trombonebass from festival_years
where year = ':P6_YEAR')
UNION ALL
SELECT lname,fname,instrument,total
FROM
(SELECT lname, fname, a.instrument, a.total, DENSE_RANK() OVER
(ORDER BY a.total DESC,a.ID NULLS LAST) AS Stu_Rank
FROM band_students, festival_records A
JOIN festival_records B on a.ID = b.ID
where band_students.id = a.ID
and a.instrument = 'Euphonium'
and a.festival_year = ':P6_YEAR'
ORDER BY total, a.ID DESC NULLS LAST)
WHERE Stu_Rank <= (select hb_Trombonebass from festival_years
where year = ':P6_YEAR')
UNION ALL
SELECT lname,fname,instrument,total
FROM
(SELECT lname, fname, a.instrument, a.total, DENSE_RANK() OVER
(ORDER BY a.total DESC,a.ID NULLS LAST) AS Stu_Rank
FROM band_students, festival_records A
JOIN festival_records B on a.ID = b.ID
where band_students.id = a.ID
and a.instrument = 'Tuba'
and a.festival_year = ':P6_YEAR'
ORDER BY total, a.ID DESC NULLS LAST)
WHERE Stu_Rank <= (select hb_Tuba from festival_years
where year = ':P6_YEAR')
UNION ALL
SELECT lname,fname,instrument,total
FROM
(SELECT lname, fname, a.instrument, a.total, DENSE_RANK() OVER
(ORDER BY a.total DESC,a.ID NULLS LAST) AS Stu_Rank
FROM band_students, festival_records A
JOIN festival_records B on a.ID = b.ID
where band_students.id = a.ID
and a.instrument = 'Percussion'
and a.festival_year = ':P6_YEAR'
ORDER BY total, a.ID DESC NULLS LAST)
WHERE Stu_Rank <= (select hb_Percussion from festival_years
where year = ':P6_YEAR')
UNION ALL
SELECT lname,fname,instrument,total
FROM
(SELECT lname, fname, a.instrument, a.total, DENSE_RANK() OVER
(ORDER BY a.total DESC,a.ID NULLS LAST) AS Stu_Rank
FROM band_students, festival_records A
JOIN festival_records B on a.ID = b.ID
where band_students.id = a.ID
and a.instrument = 'Piano'
and a.festival_year = ':P6_YEAR'
ORDER BY total, a.ID DESC NULLS LAST)
WHERE Stu_Rank <= (select hb_Piano from festival_years
where year = ':P6_YEAR')
UNION ALL
SELECT lname,fname,instrument,total
FROM
(SELECT lname, fname, a.instrument, a.total, DENSE_RANK() OVER
(ORDER BY a.total DESC,a.ID NULLS LAST) AS Stu_Rank
FROM band_students, festival_records A
JOIN festival_records B on a.ID = b.ID
where band_students.id = a.ID
and a.instrument = 'Violin'
and a.festival_year = ':P6_YEAR'
ORDER BY total, a.ID DESC NULLS LAST)
WHERE Stu_Rank <= (select hb_Violin from festival_years
where year = ':P6_YEAR')
UNION ALL
SELECT lname,fname,instrument,total
FROM
(SELECT lname, fname, a.instrument, a.total, DENSE_RANK() OVER
(ORDER BY a.total DESC,a.ID NULLS LAST) AS Stu_Rank
FROM band_students, festival_records A
JOIN festival_records B on a.ID = b.ID
where band_students.id = a.ID
and a.instrument = 'Viola'
and a.festival_year = ':P6_YEAR'
ORDER BY total, a.ID DESC NULLS LAST)
WHERE Stu_Rank <= (select hb_Viola from festival_years
where year = ':P6_YEAR')
UNION ALL
SELECT lname,fname,instrument,total
FROM
(SELECT lname, fname, a.instrument, a.total, DENSE_RANK() OVER
(ORDER BY a.total DESC,a.ID NULLS LAST) AS Stu_Rank
FROM band_students, festival_records A
JOIN festival_records B on a.ID = b.ID
where band_students.id = a.ID
and a.instrument = 'Cello'
and a.festival_year = ':P6_YEAR'
ORDER BY total, a.ID DESC NULLS LAST)
WHERE Stu_Rank <= (select hb_Cello from festival_years
where year = ':P6_YEAR')
UNION ALL
SELECT lname,fname,instrument,total
FROM
(SELECT lname, fname, a.instrument, a.total, DENSE_RANK() OVER
(ORDER BY a.total DESC,a.ID NULLS LAST) AS Stu_Rank
FROM band_students, festival_records A
JOIN festival_records B on a.ID = b.ID
where band_students.id = a.ID
and a.instrument = 'Bass'
and a.festival_year = ':P6_YEAR'
ORDER BY total, a.ID DESC NULLS LAST)
WHERE Stu_Rank <= (select hb_Cello from festival_years
where year = ':P6_YEAR'
SQL for band 'B'
SELECT lname,fname,instrument, total
FROM
(SELECT lname, fname, instrument, total, RANK() OVER
( ORDER BY instrument,total ASC NULLS LAST) AS Stu_Rank
FROM festival_records, band_students
where band_students.id = festival_records.id
and instrument = 'Piccolo'
and festival_year = '2014'
ORDER BY instrument, total ASC NULLS LAST)
WHERE Stu_Rank < (select hb_piccolo from festival_years
where year = :P6_YEAR)
SQL for band 'C'
SELECT lname,fname,instrument, total
FROM festival_records, band_students
where band_students.id = festival_records.student_id
and instrument = 'Piccolo'
and festival_year = ':P6_YEAR'
minus
SELECT lname,fname,instrument, total
FROM
(SELECT lname, fname, instrument, total, RANK() OVER
( ORDER BY instrument,total DESC NULLS LAST) AS Stu_Rank
FROM festival_records, band_students
where band_students.id = festival_records.student_id
and instrument = 'Piccolo'
and festival_year = ':P6_YEAR'
ORDER BY instrument, total DESC NULLS LAST)
WHERE Stu_Rank < (select hb_piccolo from festival_years
where year = ':P6_YEAR')
SQL

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Welcome to the forum: please read the FAQ and forum sticky threads (if you haven't done so already).
When you have a problem you'll get a faster, more effective response by including as much relevant information as possible upfront. This should include:
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With APEX we're also fortunate to have a great resource in apex.oracle.com where we can reproduce and share problems. Reproducing things there is the best way to troubleshoot most issues, especially those relating to layout and visual formatting. If you expect a detailed answer then it's appropriate for you to take on a significant part of the effort by getting as far as possible with an example of the problem on apex.oracle.com before asking for assistance with specific issues, which we can then see at first hand.
You should also always post code wrapped in <tt>\...\</tt> tags.
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!

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.

Gettin ORA-01461 error in informatica level

Hi All
Iam getting following error at informatica level.
WRT_8229 : Database errors occurred:
ORA-01461: can bind a LONG value only for insert into a LONG column
But we dont have any column with LONG datatype. only we have varchar2 datatype and date. its direct loading from source to target.
could you please provide me the solution
thanks
LNR

Looks like a bug..check metalink note 728074.1
Pls mark correct/helpful...

ORA-01461 in report.

Hi All,
Please advice on following:
I have:
Table A with column ONE varchar2(2000)
Table B With columnTWO varchar2(2000)
Report with embedded program unit (package) that does something like:
Declare
v_temp varchar2(2000);
begin
select ONE into v_temp from A;
insert into B (TWO) values (v_temp);
Commit;
end;
The result is ORA-01461: can bind a LONG value only for insert into a LONG column
Actual length of v_temp variable does not exceed 300 character.
Would you have any ideas why this happens and how can be overcome?
Thank you.

That what I exactly did.
But I would like to find solution, as this report aimed to be distrebuded in 100+ sites and it much easier just to copy rep file....
Might national character be the reason for it?

Ora-01461

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