SQL> ed
Wrote file afiedt.buf
1* select * from a where a is null
SQL> /
select * from a where a is null
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-03115: unsupported network datatype or representation
SQL> select nvl(a,'aa') from a;
select nvl(a,'aa') from a
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00932: inconsistent datatypes: expected BLOB got CHAR