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Get Left characters from a field

From: Tony B <anthonybrough_at_googlemail.com>
Date: 8 Nov 2006 14:28:28 -0800
Message-ID: <1163024908.266658.261320@h48g2000cwc.googlegroups.com> 





Hi All



I am a newbie to oracle so please be kind!



I have a table with a field "Name" VarChar(20).



How do I create a view that contains a field "ShortName" (10) that
contains the first 10 characters from the "Name" field.



Thanks for your help



Tony
Received on Wed Nov 08 2006 - 16:28:28 CST












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