Re: number format (0.5 instead of 0.5)

From: Tino Korth <newsgroup_at_tk79.de>
Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 13:06:15 +0200
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Hello,

let's talk in English for the other people which are interested in this thread.

Guido Konsolke schrieb:
 >
> (ENG) 1 (and best of all): RTFM. It's all in the SQL Reference. Have
> (ENG) a look at the function 'TO_NUMBER'.

I've already done that ... ;-)

> (ENG) 2: See the following (disgusting) example:
>
> select to_char(
> to_number ('0.5','0d0','nls_numeric_characters=''.,''')
> ,'0d0','nls_numeric_characters=''.,''')
> from dual;

The problem ist that i've got many tables with float-fields. And I do not want to write in every sql statement that function. I wanna set that somewhere global ...
ALTER SESSION SET NLS_.... = "0d0"
... but how?

Greetings from Rostock, Germany

Tino

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Received on Tue Sep 24 2002 - 13:06:15 CEST

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