RE: Interactive SQL - CAST

Eric,

This worked great!  Two answers and both work great!  I'm starting to feel a
little stupid but appreciate the help.

Glen

-----Original Message-----
From: DeLong, Eric [mailto:EDeLong@Sallybeauty.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 3:00 PM
To: 'RPG400-L@midrange.com'
Subject: RE: Interactive SQL - CAST


Glen,

If I understand correctly, you have fields BOOK_CODE1 (character) and
BOOK_CODE (numeric) in the table. You are trying to copy the numeric value
into the character field? If that is the case, you could try:

UPDATE Library1/BOOK2 SET book_code1 = CHAR(book_code)

See if that does what you want.

hth,
Eric DeLong

-----Original Message-----
From: orsburn@foxvalleytech.com [mailto:orsburn@foxvalleytech.com]
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2001 2:11 PM
To: RPG400-L@midrange.com
Subject: Interactive SQL - CAST



I'm having trouble converting from data type to another.  I understand if I
attempt to go from character type column to numeric issues will occur if all
the data isn't numeric in that column.  But going from a numeric column to
char, I thought would be easy.  Here is what I've tried doing with very no
success: I used the CAST function with interactive SQL.  I went to run an
Interactive SQL statement such as:

        UPDATE Library1/BOOK2 SET BOOK_CODE1 = cast(book_code as char)

        Book_Code1 is char  (I've changed the length on this)
        Book_Code is numeric (I've tried numeric, decimal) 4,0

The error I receive:  Significant digits truncated during CAST from numeric
to character. 

Then I thought about looking at the data through a SELECT CAST(Book_code as
char) from library1/book2

returns --  + (plus sign only)

Any suggestions?

Glen


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