RE: Create view using CAST to change datatype
- To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 11:03:12 -0500
In the world according to Oracle, a zero-length string is indistinguishable
from a NULL. Yes, I'm that's incompatible w/ ANSI, but that's what Oracle
does. It's well documented behavior, and it's not likely to change anytime
soon.
-Mark
-----Original Message-----
From: John Flack [mailto:JohnF@xxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 11:00 AM
To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE: Create view using CAST to change datatype
That's interesting, because I thought that Oracle had changed things so that
LTRIM(' ') would result in a string with a length of zero, which is not the
same thing as a NULL. Guess I was wrong - but I wouldn't depend on my being
wrong forever because the ANSI standard says zero length <> null.
-----Original Message-----
From: Mercadante, Thomas F [mailto:thomas.mercadante@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Friday, March 19, 2004 10:10 AM
To: 'oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx'
Subject: RE: Create view using CAST to change datatype
Saira,
This worked:
CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW tomview
AS
SELECT
col1, col2,
cast(NVL(RTRIM(col1),0) AS NUMBER) col1_numb
FROM tomtest
Values for the TOMTEST table were (' ',1);
SELECT * FROM tomview
returns
values of (' ', 1, 0)
And I agree wih Igor - why are you using CAST rather than to_number?
Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional
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