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  3. January 2015

Re: bad, bad field misuse. need to turn into to SQL.

it does,
and this is just lazy crap, that was always justified by
"only 3 lines of code!!!!!" or
"better than the packed strings within the character fields!!!!!"



the snip of sql Glenn and Gary provided does work




On 1/8/2015 9:10 AM, rob@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
CASTing is the way to go.

On a tangent, does your ERP allow you to specify a different unit of
measure by item? Or are there some other silly restrictions? For
example, we had a customer who insisted we use inches when we sold them
wire - and they bought large spools.

Sgt Nick P. : "Poor boys, they still measure in inches."


Rob Berendt


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