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Old June 16th, 2005, 01:39 PM
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Long column in cfquery

I have a query that has a long column in the select portion. When it returns more than one record, i recieve the following error:

[DataDirect][SequeLink JDBC Driver]null

I'm trying to query oracle 8.0.6 with MX 6.1, so i had to create an ODBC connection to the database instead of using the oracle driver built into coldfusion.

Does anybody know a way to stop the error or chop the amount of data returned from the long column?

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Use one of the Oracle string functions that will return only part of the data, for example select substr( mycolumn, 1, 100 ) as truncatedColumn from....

would return the first 100 characters as "truncatedColumn".
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I tried that, substr and those functions are not allowed on long columns. anytime i try to do that i get an inconsistent datatypes error.

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You could try adding toString() into the function call. Also, make sure you have the DSN set to allow long character fields in the datasource properties. If none of that works, you might want to ask in an Oracle forum.

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