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renaming data

From: Kyle Nesbitt <greater_at_justviewit.com>
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 15:41:15 -0400
Message-ID: <361A725B.6946D097@justviewit.com>


I use Oracle 8, With Platinum's Forest and Trees as a development tool. I am attempting to replace a columns results with an alias identifier. (example: if I get back the letter F in my column then I would like to replace them all with the word FIRST and L with the word LAST and so on) there will be many instances of L's and F's along with about 10 other letter Identifiers.
In Forest and Trees I can use an IFVAL
function in the Select statement. But, if there are more than one grouup of letters it creates a new column for each. Then I have to go through a bunch of hastle to joint all data back into a single colums.. Any suggestions.. Maybe Oracle could return what I need through the SQL statement.

Thanks Received on Tue Oct 06 1998 - 14:41:15 CDT

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