Return-Path: Received: from air189.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id hBIL1U219732 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 15:01:30 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 66.27.56.210 Received: from ns3.fatcity.com (rrcs-west-66-27-56-210.biz.rr.com [66.27.56.210]) by air189.startdedicated.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id hBIL1To19727 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 15:01:29 -0600 Received: from ns3.fatcity.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by ns3.fatcity.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id hBIKo1s5013729 for ; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 12:56:20 -0800 Received: (from root@localhost) by ns3.fatcity.com (8.12.8/8.12.5/Submit) id hBIKUoq3013447 for oracle-l@orafaq.com; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 12:30:53 -0800 Received: by fatcity.com (05-Jun-2003/v1.0g-b73/bab) via fatcity.com id 005DA554; Thu, 18 Dec 2003 12:34:25 -0800 Message-ID: Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 12:34:25 -0800 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L X-Comment: Oracle RDBMS Community Forum X-Sender: Jonathan Gennick Sender: ml-errors@fatcity.com Reply-To: ORACLE-L@fatcity.com Errors-To: ML-ERRORS@fatcity.com From: Jonathan Gennick Subject: Humorous error message Organization: Fat City Network Services, San Diego, California X-ListServer: v1.0g, build 73; ListGuru (c) 1996-2003 Bruce A. Bergman Precedence: bulk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Take a look at the results below. Look especially at the error message. I had to laugh when I read that. Hey, Oracle is telling me it got what it expected, so what's the problem, right? Bonus points if you can tell me why the query failed. SQL> SELECT FROM_TZ(SYSTIMESTAMP,'-5:00') FROM dual; SELECT FROM_TZ(SYSTIMESTAMP,'-5:00') FROM dual * ERROR at line 1: ORA-00932: inconsistent datatypes: expected TIMESTAMP got TIMESTAMP Best regards, Jonathan Gennick --- Brighten the corner where you are http://Gennick.com * 906.387.1698 * mailto:jonathan@gennick.com Join the Oracle-article list and receive one article on Oracle technologies per month by email. To join, visit http://four.pairlist.net/mailman/listinfo/oracle-article, or send email to Oracle-article-request@gennick.com and include the word "subscribe" in either the subject or body. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Jonathan Gennick INET: jonathan@gennick.com Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: ListGuru@fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).