Hi all,

i want compare two rows in a table. so i used decode function to compare the values, whther its matched or not.

One of my table column has Long data type.

Decode(a.col1,b.col1,'Match','NotMatch')
col1 - is long data type.

when i use long data type, i got below error,
is there anyway to rectify this error.
SQL Error: ORA-00932: inconsistent datatypes: expected NUMBER got LONG
00932. 00000 - "inconsistent datatypes: expected %s got %s"

Thanks in advance.
Regards,
Santhosh