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Re: Query in 10g

From: Norman Dunbar <norman.dunbar_at_environment-agency.gov.uk>
Date: Wed, 08 Nov 2006 16:27:18 +0000
Message-Id: <s5520574.039@environment-agency.gov.uk>

OK,

apologies for my Spanish first of all. (Nombre)

Now then, you are using varchars to hold numbers in some columns. I would expect that you either have a NULL in at least one row in one of those columns - which normally wouldn't be a problem, and/or you have a non-numeric character in one or more rows.

Going back to your original query :

select ACUM_PERIODO,con_nombre, ACUM_UNIDADES || ' ' || DESC_UNIDAD desc_unidad, pec_saldo_valor, acum_valor_local from VRH_PRO_ACU_COL_PAG
WHERE emp_codigo = 43103973 and ACUM_ANO = 2006 and acum_mes=9

It looks to me like the only place you have an implicit conversion using TO_NUMBER is here :

WHERE emp_codigo = 43103973

Oracle takes the column's data type (varchar2) and converts it to the data type on the right side of the comparison operator. So emp_codigo is effectively TO_NUMBER(emp_codigo) in this WHERE clause. The fact that you are having an error implies that you must have something in that column that is not a number.

To test, try this :

SELECT TO_NUMBER(emp_codigo)
FROM VRH_PRO_ACU_COL_PAG; If you get a similar error you have a problem in tha data there. All the other comparisons in your WHERE clause are comparing numbers with numbers - so that is ok.

If you do get the error then we can find out which row it is in by the folowing :

set serverout on size 1000000
begin
for x in (select emp_codigo from VRH_PRO_ACU_COL_PAG) loop   begin
    if (translate(x.emp_codigo, '0123456789','0000000000') = 0) then       null;
    end if;
  exception
    when value_error then
      dbms_output.put_line('Error at <<' || x.emp_codigo || '>>');   end;
end loop;
end;
/

If you see a message then the bits between << and >> are the failing non-numeric characters.

Cheers,
Norman.

Norman Dunbar.
Contract Oracle DBA.
Rivers House, Leeds.

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