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  3. February 2007

SQL selection problem


Hi everyone.
I have an SQL selection problem
A file contains numerous fields, including
Field A    Alpha           6
FieldB     Packed       4   0

I want to select any records that have FieldA = spaces
OR
FieldA contains numerics only and the number in FieldA = the number in
FieldB

I tried the following

 select * from File where
(FieldA  = ' ' or
(FieldA  <> ' ' and FieldB = DEC(FieldA)))

Interactively, I get the following error
Selection error involving field XFLG11.

Anyone any thoughts on how to code SQL for this situation?

Thanks in advance



Alan Shore

NBTY, Inc
(631) 244-2000 ext. 5019
AShore@xxxxxxxx

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