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"Jim Kennedy" <kennedy-downwithspammersfamily_at_attbi.net> wrote in message news:0l0gc.158117$JO3.95218_at_attbi_s04...
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| "moon" <only_forme4_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message
| news:2afc1efd.0404160319.4b1feeef_at_posting.google.com...
| > Sybrand Bakker <gooiditweg_at_sybrandb.verwijderdit.demon.nl> wrote:
| > > Yes you should. The industry is currently already suffering more than
| > > enough from people like you.
| > > If you don't want that, find another job where you can earn money by
| > > doing nothing.
| >
| > Forget Oracle for now! One of the books state this rule (may be for
| > you :) ):
| >
| > "An explicit type conversion (cast) is preferable to a doubtful
| > implicit type conversion."
| >
| > I don't know if you are feeling that (and I will be really sorry :( ):
| >
| > Short + Double + Int
| >
| > is a doubtful expression.
| >
| > Peace : )
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| Moon,
| I think you miss the point. Isn't the goal to make your logic work in a
| scalable, reliable, useful fashion? Assuming that is your goal then you
| need to understand that different environments, programming languages,
| RDBMSs, work differently. If you are going to rely on a default behavior
| then that default behavior may not work very well in a different context.
| In those cases you need to use whatever is recommended in that programing
| logic context. (eg explicitly do a conversion if that programing language
| calls for it.) It doesn't help you to write a program in Fortran and rely
| on behavior of Java. Since Fortran != Java.
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| If I have mistated your goal then you just want to flame and in that case
| you go into the kill file.
| Jim
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always keep in mind that default behavior can change from version to version

how much pre-9i SQL do you think broke when the GROUP BY clause stopped ordering the rows?

;-{ mcs Received on Sat Apr 17 2004 - 07:34:16 CDT