to_number question 2004-07-14 - By Stephen.Lee@(protected)
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> Almost certainly somewhere in your column you have at least
> one value that fails to convert to a number.
I 'm inclined to agree because the following works:
to_number(translate(nbr_cc_no_high, '0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcd
efghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz ', '0123456789 '))
Some creator of data around here needs to be slapped.
You still have to wonder why it isn 't a problem in the SELECT part; but IS a
problem in WHERE part.
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