ORA-01461 Can Bind A Long Value Only For Insert Into A Long Column (Doc ID 387587.1)

Working with a Windows client.

Normally when binding, the OCIBindByName call expects the size of the data being passed in. The value is passed via the value_sz parameter of the OCIBindByName call.

When dynamically binding (using the OCI_DATA_AT_EXEC) it usually means the data and size is unknown until run-time which leads to the question of what does the value_sz parameter pertain to.

If the actual data size will be 500, using a size 167 works but using a size 166 fails with the following error:

ORA-01461: can bind a LONG value only for insert into a LONG column

Cause

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