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Re: equivalent for isdate, isnumeric

From: Vladimir Begun <vladimir.begun_at_oracle.com>
Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 08:49:43 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D131C.20030926084943@fatcity.com>


Tanel Poder wrote:

>>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.

:) So, RTFM?

>>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 ;)

Forget about :)

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