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  1. #1
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    I have at table where a field called taxing_district_code is a varchar2(16). In the following select I get 58 rows

    select wr_no, revision_no, point_span_seq_id, taxing_district_code
    from wr_point_span
    where wr_no = 4317 and revision_no = 2 and taxing_district_code = 474

    if I change the where clause to:

    select wr_no, revision_no, point_span_seq_id, taxing_district_code
    from wr_point_span
    where wr_no = 4317 and revision_no = 2 and taxing_district_code = '474'
    order by wr_no, revision_no, point_span_seq_id

    I only get 17 rows. The only difference is putting ' around the 474 value.

    Can someone explain this?

  2. #2
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    in some of the rows you have blanks righ or left padded to your '474' string.

    In your first queryOracle performs implicit TO_NUMBER conversion, trimming all the blanks, thats why it returns all the rows with or without blanks arround the string '474'. In second query it returns only the rows with string '474' without blanks.

    Run the following query and check for yourself:

    SELECT REPLACE(taxing_district_code,' ','_'), COUNT(*)
    FROM wr_point_span
    GROUP BY REPLACE(taxing_district_code,' ','_')
    WHERE taxing_district_code = 474;
    Jurij Modic
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  3. #3
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    Thanks jurij

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