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  3. July 2009

Validating packed data in a character field

Hi,

One of our files in a third party application is getting corrupt data
loaded into one of the fields. The field is a 13 position field and it
contains 4 fields within it. These 4 fields are the key to a file. The
first 3 positions are character, the next 2 are a signed number, the next
3 are a signed number and the final 5 are an 8 digit packed number. It is
the 8 digit number that is corrupted sometimes. Is there an SQL statement
that I can use to find the corrupt numbers? I would want to report them
so that they can be fixed.

Dean Eshleman,
MMA, Inc.


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