Re: Peculiar results from a simple looking query.

>> suspect this bug has gone unaddressed for so long because most
people
using Oracle would never even think to use CAST to convert one char type
to another where only the length was different. ..<<

I would agree. BTW, I was told that Microsoft used to hire people with no previous exposure to computers as testers. I was also told that such newbies were very very useful, as they were going off the beaten path and exposing an enormous amount of problems. Received on Fri Feb 25 2005 - 15:54:30 CST