Troubleshooting
Problem
How can data from a CLOB (text) field in Oracle be converted to varchar2 and delivered in a build? When reading directly from the CLOB field, the following error is returned.
Symptom
ORA-00932: inconsistent datatypes: expected - got <datatype>
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Document Information
More support for:
Cognos Business Intelligence
Software version:
1.1, 7.1, 8.1, 8.2
Operating system(s):
AIX, Windows
Document number:
107227
Modified date:
30 April 2025
UID
swg21335599
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