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This answer on a question on SO says
… you can read a LONG from a remote database, but you can’t read a CLOB
I did not find anything about this on the internet, is it true? Any documentation or citings for this will be helpful.
The answer is correct in a certain context, for simple select statements over a DB link, you’ll get this error:
From the errors manual:
I also had trouble finding definitive documentation on this…but we just ran into the same issue in our data warehouse. However, there are several work-arounds available, pulling the data over or creating a view for example.