RE: High values

At 03:18 AM 9/20/2002, you wrote:
>Basically what I want to do is put a value in a VARCHAR2 column that will
>ensure it appears as the last row when selected using an ORDER BY on the
>column

Does the column presently have NULL's in it? If not, you could insert a NULL value and add the NULLS LAST clause to your select statement.

>John
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: DENNIS WILLIAMS [SMTP:DWILLIAMS_at_LIFETOUCH.COM]
> > Sent: 19 September 2002 21:09
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > Subject: RE: High values
> >
> > John - Since nobody has replied to your question, I discussed it with a
> > fellow COBOL programmer. I think that in COBOL you normally would use this
> > in an iterative loop, as a comparison. In SQL itself, you rarely iterate,
> > so
> > you probably don't have that much need for a HIGH-VALUE. In PL/SQL you
> > might
> > be more likely to need it. Myself, I have used such a thing in the C
> > language before, and there was usually a precompiler value that you could
> > include. For Oracle, the maximum integer that can be represented is 38 9's
> > times 10 to the 125th. power. Here is a web address that lists a lot of
> > the
> > Oracle limits as of 8.0.5.
> >
> > http://storacle.princeton.edu:9001/oracle8-doc/server.805/a58242/ch5.htm
> >
> > Dennis Williams
> > DBA
> > Lifetouch, Inc.
> > dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com <mailto:dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com>
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 12:21 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> >
> >
> > Is there a Oracle equivalent to the Cobol HIGH-VALUES value?
> >
> > John
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