RE: NUMBER PROBLEM

Thanks, Tom!

At 11:55 AM 12/14/01 -0800, you wrote:
>me too! nicely said Regina...
>
>Tom Mercadante
>Oracle Certified Professional
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>When I encounter a situation like this, I usually make a temporary table
>containing the primary key and the field in question, load it with data
>from the table, update the field in the real table with null, modify the
>field type, then reload from the temporary table.
>
>At 09:25 AM 12/14/01 -0800, you wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >We have created our table column with datatype NUMBER (where it should be
> >NUMBER(38,0))
> >Now ODBC is treating NUMBER as double precision instead of integer which is
> >breaking our code.
> >Does there any way to convert NUMBER to number(38)..without export/import
> >utility???????
> >Alter table is not working as it it giving error table column should be
> >empty.
> >Tables have more than 10 million rows.
> >
> >Thanks
> >--Harvinder
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