Lets consider a table 'PREFERENCES' with two values 'ID' and 'PREFERENCES'. Where id is a Number and preferences is a CLOB field.
Now if you want to find out how many distinct values are there in the Preference column.You might try to use;
This will generate the following SQL error:
If you then use
This will also generate error :-
as per the Error Description If you use
Still, an SQL Error will be thrown , which is
There are lot of ways to solve this problem.One of the simplest way is to increase the Buffer in the same sql . As displayed below.
This runs without error and gets you all the unique values of preferences column.
Happy Coding!!
ID PREFERENCES
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Now if you want to find out how many distinct values are there in the Preference column.You might try to use;
This will generate the following SQL error:
If you then use
This will also generate error :-
as per the Error Description If you use
Still, an SQL Error will be thrown , which is
There are lot of ways to solve this problem.One of the simplest way is to increase the Buffer in the same sql . As displayed below.
This runs without error and gets you all the unique values of preferences column.
Happy Coding!!
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