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Re: why data translate error when selecting from view?

On Fri, May 17, 2019 at 3:34 PM Peter Dow <petercdow@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:


I'm curious why you want to stick with the LENGTH(TRIM(A.CPCSID))
instead of TRANSLATE? I would think the TRANSLATE is safer, in that the
LENGTH statement doesn't guarantee that the date is numeric. I mean, it
may work with your data, but in the general case it wouldn't.


TRANSLATE seems harder to read and maintain. Also was thinking TRIM
should run quicker than TRANSLATE.

I am still kind of shocked that SQL will not let me safely run a CASE
statement to convert character data to decimal. The code clearly states to
convert the character field to decimal when the TRIM(LENGTH()) is = 10.

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