Check this out : http://salesforce.stackexchange.com/questions/21665/why-am-i-getting-an-oracle-exception-when-doing-… (For the record, that’s the most awesome error message I’ve ever seen…)

The formula field itself was not producing the text I wanted, but this should not have broken the page if it worked without error on a page layout.

That said, after fixing the formula to produce the text I want, my page is no longer broken. Odd.

Yup. Certainly an eye opener! Not sure how a formula field can possible break a SOQL query.

Holy Cow. That is a great error message. 

That’s all me!

Glad you were able to get this fixed. Something about the formula made SOQL very unhappy. You should not assume that because fields show in standard layouts - they will show via Skuid.  Salesforce can do some trickery on the standard layouts that we cannot.