RE: Data Type in A View

I read the note before I sent the first mail. The note is of no assistance. The trouble is that that the prebuilt table does not match the definition query or at least the queries I've formulated. I tried casting, and using a format with to_number neither worked. No matter how I manipulate a number Oracle returns it as a number without an explicit precision or scale; hence the error.

Ian MacGregor
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
ian_at_SLAC.Stanford.edu

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On Sat, Aug 03, 2002 at 08:18:19PM -0800, MacGregor, Ian A. wrote:
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> I thought, perhaps, I could prebuild the table and declare the field as number(6,2) and have the snapshot use that. However this results in, "ORA-12060: shape of prebuilt table does not match definition query."

Note:71943.1

Action:	Reissue the SQL command using BUILD IMMEDIATE, BUILD DEFERRED, or 
	ensure that the prebuilt table matches the snapshot definition query.
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