In this post, you’ll learn about the error message -416 an operand of a union contains a long string column in the IBM DB2 database , the reason why it occurs along with the solution to fix it
IBM DB2 Error Message
-416 an operand of a union contains a long string column
Reason for the Error
The UNION specified in the SQL statement could not be performed because one of the tables participating in the union contains a long string column (for example, a VARCHAR column with length greater than 254).� The operands of a UNION cannot contain long string columns.
Solution
The implied function is not supported by DB2.
