RE: equivalent for isdate, isnumeric

Or, the function can be written to return number. It's not so hard to do. If there are problems,
please let me know, I'll post the new version of the code, wrapped.    

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Jamadagni, Rajendra
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 10:05 AM
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you could however use diutil.bool_to_int and diutil.int_to_bool which is
used by oracle to transmit/receive Boolean data across SqlNet.

Since others have pointed out, Boolean is not a SQL datatype, you could not
build a FBI around it, deterministic or no, it doesn't make a difference.
Use diutil.bool_to_int around the return value and your function returns a
number (0 or 1) and now you can build a FBI.

Raj 
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-----Original Message----- 
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 7:40 AM 
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> Called from where? :) I think Tanel, Mladen and you missed the ironical 

> point -- if it can't be called from SQL why it is a deterministic one? 


Erm.. ee.. if you put a wrapper function over it which retuns number... 
(just joking) 

Ok, I was too short-sighted there. I just checked from v$type_size that 
boolean still exists and didn't think much more. 



> P.S.: Tanel, I do not need an example, it was a joke. 


I actually checked whether it was possible to still conduct some kind of 
working example, but didn't succed in 5 minutes, so be it ;) 

Tanel. 




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