Re: to_number question (excellent thread)

From: Jonathan Lewis <jonathan_at_jlcomp.demon.co.uk>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 21:35:29 +0100
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I'm sorry I didn't have time to look at this thread when it was live - a quick check through a small section of its history makes interesting reading.

My only contribution, Dan, is that you missed out a couple of classifications:

4) how the designer specified it
5) how Oracle Marketing thinks it works

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Jonathan Lewis

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Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Fink" <Daniel.Fink_at_Sun.COM> To: <oracle-l_at_freelists.org> Sent: Friday, July 16, 2004 9:30 PM Subject: Re: to_number question (excellent thread)

Umm...I did not really intend it to be humorous... (don't worry, no offense taken)

In my current and past research and daily tasks, I am encountering all 3 classifications. My first exposure to this was my work on rollback segments. I quickly realized that there was a lot of mythology and lack of understanding, strongly supported by documentation, papers and presentations. When I really dove in to 9i Automatic Undo, it was reinforced.

Have a good weekend,
Daniel

Jonathan Gennick wrote:
> Friday, July 16, 2004, 3:44:19 PM, Daniel Fink (Daniel.Fink_at_Sun.COM)
wrote:
> DF> I might add that there are three classifications on reality
> DF> 1) how you want it to work
> DF> 2) how the masses believe it to work
> DF> 3) how it really works
>

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