I do get an "inconsistent datatypes" error against an Oracle 8i database, but it does work in 9i.

>Mark,
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>I dropped a table I had with a LONG field. I executed the script to re-build it with a CLOB field instead. After re-installing the data I was still not able to use SUBSTR()
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>SELECT SUBSTR(ADDR_DTL.ADDR_LINE, 1, 30) AS ADDR_LINE1, SUBSTR(ADDR_DTL.ADDR_LINE, 31, 60) AS ADDR_LINE2 FROM ADDR_DTL WHERE ADDR_DTL.ADDR_NO = 4311