Re: Converting between Numbers

From: Bill Manry <BManry_at_us.oracle.com>
Date: 1996/02/23
Message-ID: <4gl3c9$rrn_at_inet-nntp-gw-1.us.oracle.com>#1/1


sminkeyk_at_interramp.com (Mark Sminkey) wrote: [...]
>INSERT INTO TABLE Y
>SELECT ...., TO_NUMBER(TO_CHAR(FIELD1,'99.99999'))
>FROM TABLE X;
 
>results in a ORA-01722 Invalid Number error after approxiamtely
>10,000 rows.

I would guess that you have a number greater than 99.99999 in tablex.

/b

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Bill Manry - Mainframe & Integration Technologies - Oracle Corp. USA
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Received on Fri Feb 23 1996 - 00:00:00 CET

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