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Date: Thu, 10 Oct 2002 06:28:27 -0800
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Russ - What do you have in mind? Oracle stores numbers in its own format in
its own datafiles. Are you looking to hack the Oracle datafiles? Or do you
have an input file in packed decimal format that your are looking at loading
into Oracle? If you could tell us the objective you are seeking to achieve,
perhaps we could help you. Or maybe not. :-) My schedule doesn't allow me
much spare time to hack Oracle datafiles.


Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams@lifetouch.com 

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Hi,
  Is there any way to identify values in a field, defined in Oracle as
number(11,2), with a packed decimal format?  Or to update the field with
packed decimal values?
 
Thanks,
Russ

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