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Hi Thomas.
first of all i want to thank you a lot for constantly answering my stupid questions! is there any faq aimed at guys familiar with other databases who are being converted :-) ?
>read about decode, its like an if, then, else if, then, else if.... function
i missed that one as i needed something like "(blob is null) as blobemtpy" and
>select decode(mylongraw,0,1) as blobisempty from mytable..
decode doesn't work with long raws..
ciao, jan Received on Fri Jan 29 1999 - 11:21:35 CST