Oracle-L: RE: decode

From: Igor Neyman <ineyman_at_perceptron.com>
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 12:04:38 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005CEA98.20030903120438@fatcity.com>

decode(sign(8 - length(sn)), -1, substr(sn,-7), sn )

Igor Neyman, OCP DBA
ineyman_at_perceptron.com

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Imran Ashraf
Sent: Wednesday, September 03, 2003 1:00 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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