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From: Imran Ashraf <imran9a_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 09:59:41 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005CEA6C.20030903095941@fatcity.com>

Hi,

I have this query...
select decode(length(sn),8),substr(sn,-7),sn )from .....

However i want to change it so that if the length of sn is >= 8 then set sn to last 7 characters.

How can i implement this?

Regards
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