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Re: string functions returning garbage

From: Fred Pierce <fpierce_at_avialantic.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2001 20:00:50 GMT
Message-ID: <3C03F0D4.40996577@avialantic.com>


Fred Pierce wrote:
>
> Ed prochak wrote:
> >
> > You went thru a lot of details and never mentioned the data values
> > that failed.
> > What did they look like?
> >

,,,
> I think my question now is whether this is a bug or a "feature."
> Shouldn't anything which can legitimately be inserted into a table, even
> a silly string of spaces, be able to be retrieved from the table using
> legitimate sql string functions?

Never mind - it returns an invalid number as it should. Forgot the original error.
>

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