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Increase varchar2 length to beyond 4000

edited Apr 21, 2010 8:56PM in Database Administration (MOSC) 9 commentsAnswered
 I need to increase the one column size to beyond 4000 characters length.

Column type is varchar2

maximum size it may grow is 20000. I am getting the following error when i try to increase the size:

ORA-00910: specified length too long for its datatype

Could you please suggest me.

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