Imran Ashraf wrote:
>
> 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
> --
decode(sign(length(sn) - 8, 1, ..., 0, ..., sn)
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Received on Wed Sep 03 2003 - 15:44:27 CDT
