Implementation limit exceeded. Block size exceeds implementation restriction

This error message can show up for different reasons:

1. Your SQL statement has breached the limit for SQL statement size. The limit is 64KB for statement text, 64KB for compiled BLR (see FAQ #187 to learn what BLR is) and 48KB for execution plan.

2. The returned row size for SELECT statements is bigger than 64KB.

- Float, Integer, Date and Time columns take 4 bytes.

- Timestamp, BIGINT and Double Precision columns take 8 bytes.

- Smallint takes 2 bytes.

- Numeric and decimal columns take between 2 and 8 bytes, depending on the precision.

- Varchar and char columns take more space if you use multibyte character sets. For example, UNICODE uses 3 bytes per character and UTF8 internaly uses 4 bytes per character. For example, you would get this message if try to select three CHAR(8000) columns. To work around this you can use SUBSTRING to select less data.

3. If you use IN try converting it to EXISTS as IN gets converted to a lot of OR statements internally.

4. If you are joining views who are UNIONs, plan could be huge and complex - try writing views that cover only those tables you really need for this particular query. If nothing helps, perhaps you can break it into several queries, or write a stored procedure to do some part of the job.