RE: decode

Use greatest ...

decode(greatest(sn,7),sn, substr(sn,-7),sn )

Stephane Paquette
Administrateur de bases de donnees
Database Administrator
Standard Life
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-----Original Message-----
Imran Ashraf
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 2:00 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

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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