Oracle Sql Developer “string literal too long” error

Question

I have the following SQL that I would like to run in Oracle SQL Developer against an Oracle 10g server:

WITH openedXml AS (
  SELECT extractvalue(column_va         


        

Answer 1

You can use sql workaround using insert/updates where each part if less than 4000 chars.

1 Do the insert as an insert with first part is the sql literal up to 4000 chars 2 Do the additional parts as an update concatenating the previous parts with the next part where the next part is up to 4000 chars 3 Repeat step 2 until all the large sql literal is updated.

Example,

Insert into
test_large_literal (col1, col2)
values
(, );

update
test_large_literal
set
col2 = col2 || 
where
col1 = ;
...
...
update
test_large_literal
set
col2 = col2 || 
where
col1 = ;