Re: to_Char or not to_Char
From: Will Kooiman <wkooiman_at_oracledba.com>
Date: 13 Jun 2002 21:41:18 -0700
Message-ID: <8693f67d.0206132041.32a3cea6_at_posting.google.com>
Date: 13 Jun 2002 21:41:18 -0700
Message-ID: <8693f67d.0206132041.32a3cea6_at_posting.google.com>
It has everything to do with the data model. With very few exceptions
(I've done this once in 14 years), you should *only* have numbers in
number columns or strings in string columns or dates in date columns,
etc.
I started to offer a suggestion on how to make this work, but there
are no good solutions. The best solution is probably to fix your data
model.