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I get an ORA-02070 error when using DG4ODBC to insert data into SQL Server. What can I do?

Oracle DG4ODBC does not support functions within INSERT statements. If you attempt to do this, you will get an ORA-02070 error. For example:

INSERT INTO vc@odbc ("c1") VALUES (current_timestamp);
ORA-02070: database ODBC does not support operator 293 in this context
INSERT INTO vc@odbc ("c1") VALUES (sysdate);
ORA-02070: database ODBC does not support special functions in this context

We worked around this issue in the following way:

  1. We created this SQL Server table: 
    create table vc ( c0 int IDENTITY(1,1) NOT NULL, c1 datetime, primary key (c0))
  2. Next, we tried to run one of the INSERT statements shown above, but got the ORA-02070 error. To work around this, we passed the contents of the function into a data store and then passed the data store to the INSERT statement. For example: 
    DECLARE
d1 date;
BEGIN
select sysdate into d1 from dual;
INSERT INTO vc@odbc ("c1") values (d1);
END;/

PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.

SQL> select * from vc@odbc;

        c0 c1
---------- ---------
         1 03-MAR-14

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