RE: Re[2]: to_number question

From: rob zijlstra <rmsah_at_xs4all.nl>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 15:40:26 +0200
Message-Id: <200407151340.i6FDeQiY085335@smtp-vbr4.xs4all.nl>

• on the other hand I definitely agree with Stephen and Jonathan that a $40000 per CPU modern commercial database product should be able to work around this kind of issue by itself.

Yes, but ONLY when it does it every time the same way AND it's documented somewhere.

I might add, that if that is not the case, you get things like the to_date( expr) function in VB, which will allmost allways give SOME date back, whatever the expr is. Learned this the (very) hard way...

Rob Zijlstra

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