Re: Can TO_NUMBER Do This?

Egads, Ed, this app is a disaster!

Jared

On Tue, 29 Aug 2000, Ed Bittel wrote:

> --- Jared Still <jkstill_at_bcbso.com> wrote:
> > > NEVER store formatting with the data. This does make
> > it rather hard to reformat it in other ways. Does your
> > developer think Oracle is a spreadsheet?
>
> Actually, he does. The application he's developed mimics a
> spreadsheet using a browser. Since I originally posted the
> question, I've learned that he 'had to store everything as
> character' because the rows of the table include the records he
> uses for the 'web-spreadsheet' headings as well as the data.
>
> I predict this is going to be a huge pain-in-the-tail app to
> maintain once people start using it. The worst part is that
> everytime something errors-out or doesn't work as planned, he
> comes to me and says 'Is there something wrong with Oracle?'.
>
> Make some room on that soap-box for me.
>
> -Ed
>
>
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Jared Still
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