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Re: DECODE and NVL

From: Terry Dykstra <tddykstra_at_forestoil.ca>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 19:27:33 GMT
Message-ID: <F8%6i.61999$V75.17818@edtnps89> 





"maomao" <mm_at_mailinator.com> wrote in message 
news:135ov26mb4pav8f_at_corp.supernews.com...


> 10gR2

>

> I'm kind of self-doubting now, I'd like to run this by you gurus;

>

> I see this in pl/sql : (written by God-knows-who)

>

> DECODE(some-number-column, NULL, 0,some-number-column)

>

> Is this in fact SAME as NVL(some-number-column, 0) ???

>

> thanks

>

>





Looks the same to me.

-- 
Terry Dykstra 


Received on Tue May 29 2007 - 14:27:33 CDT












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