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CAST vs. TO_NUMBER or TO_CHAR or TO_DATE or ...

From: Rumpi Gravenstein <rgravens_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 11 Oct 2007 09:49:31 -0400
Message-ID: <9c9b9dc90710110649i6086e04do68af4c54f6254fe@mail.gmail.com> 





I've been looking at the Oracle CAST function vs. a TO_NUMBER or TO_CHAR or
....  Where both the CAST and TO_ functions result in equivalent answers, is
there a preferred choice?



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Rumpi Gravenstein



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