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ORA-01489: Result Of String Concatenation Is Too Long for NVARCHAR2 (Doc ID 2681697.1)

Last updated on MARCH 16, 2025

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Standard Edition - Version 12.1.0.2 and later
Oracle Database Cloud Exadata Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Exadata Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Gen 1 Exadata Cloud at Customer (Oracle Exadata Database Cloud Machine) - Version N/A and later
Gen 2 Exadata Cloud at Customer - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

Getting below error for string size more than 2000 characters for datatype NVARCHAR2

ORA-01489: result of string concatenation is too long

Cause

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