You might have stumbled upon this and it might have made you tear your hair just as it did to me. When you try to call a stored procedure from .NET using System.Data.OracleClient, you won’t be able to pass a CLOB parameter value > 4000 Bytes.
I got the following error message when trying to do so:
ORA-01460 – unimplemented or unreasonable conversion requested
This issue has been reported in lots of places on the web already. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to find the right hint to remedy this problem – until a fellow employee of mine saved my day!
In fact, the solution, or rather workaround, is quite simple and can be found on http://henbo.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!2E073207A544E12!332.entry:
Set the System.Data.OracleClient.OracleParameter.OracleDbType property to System.Data.OracleClient.OracleType.Clob.
– AND -
Set the parameter value when BeginTransaction has already been called on the DbConnection.
Don’t let the “OracleDbType” (implying that the guy speaks about Oracle’s version of the client) derange you: The trick works for the Microsoft client just as well!
