Re: Use SQL to convert numeric to char -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: Use SQL to convert numeric to char
From: "Ron Adams" <rondadams@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 4 May 2007 12:00:57 -0500
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The field is Packed 13,4.

On 5/4/07, Ron Adams <rondadams@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I've got a weird one here.

Some "clever" programmer decided to use a numeric field to store character
data. The coversion is handled just fine by the application program, but I
would like to be able to view the character data using SQL. How would I do
this?

--
Ron Adams

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