Update columns

When I was trying to update columns, I met two different problems:
1. Source column with COLUMN1 VARCHAR2(70 BYTE); Target column with COLUMN2 VARCHAR2(50 BYTE)
2. Source column with COLUMN3 NUMBER(38,0); Target column with COLUMN4 NUMBER(10,0).
When I was trying to update COLUMN2 with COLUMN1 and COLUMN4 with COLUMN3, I got following error message:
SQL Error: ORA-01401: inserted value too large for column
01401. 00000 - "inserted value too large for column"Please help me to do the update?
Thanks a lot!!

Hi,
Whenever you have a problem, post a little sample data (CREATE TABLE and INSERT statements for all tables) and the results you want from that data.
If it's a DML problem (including UPDATE) then the sample data should show the tables as the exist before the changes, and the results will be the contents of the changed table(s) after the changes.
As Sybrand pointed out, "inserted value too large for column" is one of those error messages that really means what it says. You can't store a 70-character string in a VARCHAR2 (50 BYTE) column. You can't store a 38-digit number in column limited to 10 digits.
What do you want to do when the source data won't fit in the destination columns?
Do you want to use it, unchanged? Then use ALTER TABLE to allow bigger values in the destination table.
Do you want to use some abbreviated form of the source data? Use fucntions such as SUBSTR, as Saubhik suggested.
Do you want to ignore data that won't fit? Use CASE to map the values that won't fit to NULL.
Do you want something else? Say what you want, and someone will help you do it.

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