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Intermittent Error ORA-01461 With Long Columns (Doc ID 370438.1)

Last updated on MARCH 18, 2025

Applies to:

JDBC - Version 10.1.0.2 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

JDBC 10.1 application throws the following exception while working with UTF8 character set database even though inserted characters are less than the maximum size of the column.

java.sql.SQLException: ORA-01461: can bind a LONG value only for insert into a LONG column



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Cause

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