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    Ora-20103: Null input is not allowed

    Another fine problem to grapple with:I got this error when I was trying to process a string that was over the limit for a varchar2, which is 32767. What Oracle 9i does is quietly demote CLOB data to varchar2 if it can and then throw one of these exce

    Comments (0) . Friday, 25 February 2005

    Debugging 404 errors in Portal and mod PL/SQL

    This was a weird one that took me hoursSomething stopped working. It was now giving me a 404 (page not found for the unititiated) error.An HTML form was calling a procedure that was constructing a magic URL that was being used to redirect things back

    Comments (0) . Thursday, 24 February 2005

    They always said I should be certified

    I got my Java 1.4 Certification at the end of January. Now I can move on and look at the more interesting certifications. I think the next one will be the Business Components one. I need to write off to Sun to get the logo.I thought maybe I could do

    Comments (0) . Thursday, 17 February 2005