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Re: Quick question: catching exceptions in MOVE statements on time/date data

On 3/13/25 10:59 AM, Jon Paris wrote:
OOOOpppppppsssss

Forget the last post - of course, TEST(E) can do it.

The only downside is that you are effectively validating the value
twice.

For me I would only use TEST(E) if I anticipated a fairly high error
rate (for example when validating user input) but would use MONITOR
when I only expect 1 in a few thousand to fail.

Thanks to both Jon and Brian. The failure rate is more like 1 in 18k records, but at the same time, since there's a web service call involved in the program (as well as other time-expensive steps), double validation would likely have only a negligible effect on execution speed.

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JHHL

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