RE: Weird

From: Jacques Kilchoer <Jacques.Kilchoer_at_quest.com>
Date: Fri, 12 Mar 2004 14:18:35 -0800
Message-ID: <B5C5F99D765BB744B54FFDF35F602621033DAF44@irvmbxw02>

Have you tried to dump the column? See the example below (due to my language settings the decimal point is showing up as a comma.)

SQL> describe t

 Nom                 NULL ?   Type
 ------------------- -------- -------------
 N                            NUMBER(9,2)

SQL> column n_dump format a40
SQL> select n, dump (n) as n_dump from t ;

        N N_DUMP

--------- ----------------------------------------
     -,02 Typ=2 Len=3: 63,99,102
     -,01 Typ=2 Len=3: 63,100,102
        0 Typ=2 Len=1: 128
      ,01 Typ=2 Len=2: 192,2
      ,02 Typ=2 Len=2: 192,3

> -----Original Message-----
> Stephen.Lee_at_DTAG.Com
>
> OK folks, this column is a number(9,2).
> Can anybody explain how to make this happen?
> I've tried stuff like
>
> (to_number('-.00')
> -0.01 / 4
> 0 - 0.00500001
>
> I can't make it happen. Any ideas?
> I'm thinking I'm hearing the voice of Rod Serling right about now.
>
> select amt from incident_detail where rowid in (select rowid from
> ftladm.incident_detail where to_char(amt) = '-.00')
> SQL> /
>
> AMT
> ----------
> -.00
> -.00
> -.00
> -.00
> -.00
> -.00
> -.00
> -.00
> -.00
> -.00
> -.00
> -.00
> -.00
> -.00
> -.00

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