Sql Oddity

        Anyone ever seen this: A developer executes the following code in an Oracle 9i database (9.2.0.6)

create table test_date_drop_me (test_column timestamp default sysdate);         

insert into test_date_drop_me values (sysdate);         

select CASE WHEN systimestamp> t.test_column THEN 1 ELSE 0 END from test_date_drop_me t;

He gets a 0 each time the final select statement is excecuted no matter what the value in the table. In a 10.2.0.4 and 11.1.0.7 database we get a 1. Any ideas???

Dick Goulet
Senior Oracle DBA/NA Team Lead
PAREXEL International
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Richard.Goulet_at_PAREXEL.COM

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