Big string in SQLPlus

Question

I need to write a Select query in bind-variable and this query has more than 2500 symbols.

Variable sql_txt clob;

Exec :sql_txt := 'Select .....';

But SQL Plus support only <2499 symbols. How to fix it?

• Wernfried Domscheit: Maybe write all in a text file and execute this file with sqlplus

Answer 1

That limitation is for a single line.

You can break your statement into multiple lines to overcome that limitation, such as:

begin
 :sql_txt := 'select ... ' ||
 ' ... ' ||
 ...
 ' ... ';
end;
/

• Proglib: I wrote the same as you. Now I want to print it in SQL Plus, but the text doesn't show, only small part of it.