How to fix the Oracle error ORA-38905: DML error logging is not supported for LONG column “string”?

In this post, you’ll learn more about the Oracle ErrorORA-38905: DML error logging is not supported for LONG column “string” with the details on why you receive this error and the possible solution to fix it.

Oracle Error Description

ORA-38905: DML error logging is not supported for LONG column “string”

Reason for the Error ORA-38905: DML error logging is not supported for LONG column “string”

A DML Error Logging operation was attempted on a table which has a LONG, or LONG RAW column type, and the error logging table referred to the specified column.

How to fix the Error ORA-38905: DML error logging is not supported for LONG column “string” ?

You can fix this error in Oracle by following the below steps

Either do not use DML Error Logging on such a table or remove the offending column from the error logging table. The scalar columns can be logged, but not long column types.