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Tim Marshall wrote:
> am learning on my own, the author stated "Oracle is planning to drop the
> DECODE function in future releases and to replace the function with the
> CASE statement...."
>
Thanks to Daniel & Doug. I'd kept away from decode, but will probably try utilizing it, now as an alternative to case statements when it seems approriate to do so.
-- Tim http://www.ucs.mun.ca/~tmarshal/ ^o< /#) "Burp-beep, burp-beep, burp-beep?" - Quaker Jake /^^ "Whatcha doin?" - Ditto "TIM-MAY!!" - MeReceived on Mon Sep 19 2005 - 08:54:03 CDT