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ORA-22990 While Inserting Empty BLOBS To Return BLOB Locators After a Commit (Doc ID 1020390.102)

Last updated on NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Applies to:

PL/SQL - Version 8.0.5.0 and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.
***Checked for relevance on 03-Nov-2013***

Symptoms

The following error occurs while inserting empty blob to return blob locators.

ORA-22990: lob locator cannot span transaction

DML statements were executed within a for loop to insert an empty BLOB and an attempt to fetch is made followed by commit within the loop.


Cause

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