RE: NUMBER PROBLEM

me too! nicely said Regina...

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional

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Sent: Friday, December 14, 2001 1:40 PM
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When I encounter a situation like this, I usually make a temporary table containing the primary key and the field in question, load it with data from the table, update the field in the real table with null, modify the field type, then reload from the temporary table.

At 09:25 AM 12/14/01 -0800, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>We have created our table column with datatype NUMBER (where it should be
>NUMBER(38,0))
>Now ODBC is treating NUMBER as double precision instead of integer which is
>breaking our code.
>Does there any way to convert NUMBER to number(38)..without export/import
>utility???????
>Alter table is not working as it it giving error table column should be
>empty.
>Tables have more than 10 million rows.
>
>Thanks
>--Harvinder
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