Hello Chris, You have to use bind-variables or a stored procedure. Oracle or the adapter (not sure which) don't want those huge strings in the middle of an SQL statement it has to parse.. :-) hth Friday, May 3, 2002, 11:49:15 PM, you wrote: CB> Hello, CB> Maybe someone here can help.. CB> I had thought that DCOracle 2 (now) supported long text fields, but CB> when I tried to insert more than 2k into one (after upgrading) I got CB> a 'string literal too long' error from Oracle. CB> Is there some trick to this or am I running into a DCO2 or Oracle limitation? CB> I'm using Oracle 7 which (I think) is supposed to support up to 32k CB> in long text fields.. CB> I'd hate to have to continue working around this in the way I have, CB> by using Oracle7's 2k(max) varchar2 columns and splitting text in CB> Python on input/concatenating them together on output.. That is just CB> ugly.. CB> There must be a better way... CB> Also, is there any way to use the LONG RAW datatype to store images? CB> We are using Zope with Oracle as a CMS and need the long text CB> capability for descriptions within web pages.. CB> BTW...We are a nonprofit and can't afford the upgrade to Oracle 8/9.. etc. CB> -Chris -- Geir Bækholt web-developer geirh@funcom.com funcom oslo | webdev-team