Oracle introduced quite a few new features (many undocumented) in 8.1.6,
so this difference comes as no suprise.
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Basavaraja, Ravindra wrote:
> Thanks.This worked.But don't understand why this needed to be done on
> 8.1.5 and not on 8.1..7
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jacques Kilchoer [mailto:Jacques.Kilchoer_at_quest.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 17, 2003 4:12 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: RE: sqlplus help
>
> Try "set numwidth 20"
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Basavaraja, Ravindra
> [mailto:Ravindra.Basavaraja_at_T-Mobile.com]
> > Sent: jeudi, 17. avril 2003 14:47
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > Subject: sqlplus help
> >
> >
> > ACCEPT MS NUMBER PROMPT 'Enter the MS >'
> > Enter the MS >2163836567
> >
> > select col1,col2...from
> > where ms=&ms
> >
> > old 2: WHERE MS = &MM
> > new 2: WHERE MS = 2.4e5
> >
> > when we enter the number as 2163836567 it gets changed to
> > decimal number in
> > the new value and the query fails.
> > this is happening in the sqlplus client 8.1.5 but works fine
> > on sqlplus
> > 8.1.7 client
> >
> > no environment variables have been set.how to get this solved
>
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