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DECODE and NVL

From: maomao <mm_at_mailinator.com>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2007 15:17:15 -0400
Message-ID: <135ov26mb4pav8f@corp.supernews.com>


10gR2

I'm kind of self-doubting now, I'd like to run this by you gurus;

I see this in pl/sql : (written by God-knows-who)

DECODE(some-number-column, NULL, 0,some-number-column)

Is this in fact SAME as NVL(some-number-column, 0) ???

thanks Received on Tue May 29 2007 - 14:17:15 CDT

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