I would content that you are both correct... For
pl/sql, then not performing a select-from-dual ie
using a 'is_number' routine will be quicker...But you
if you want to get all the rows from a table which are
numeric ie
select *
from my_big_table
where "col is numeric"
then using the sql approach will out perform the plsql
one. I've seen claims that in 9i all of this context
switching stuff will disappear - but I'll believe that
when I see it :-)
hth
connor
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> Jared,
>
> That's absolutely true, now. In the past (don't ask
> me when, I think it
> was version 7 something), I found that exceptions
> for some reason took a
> long time to process. I haven't cured myself of the
> habit of avoiding
> them, yet. :)
>
> Thanks for the reminder!
>
> Diana Duncan
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> Jared Still
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> <jkstill@cybc To:
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> 05/21/2001 Subject:
> Re: Check for number only
>
> 05:24 PM
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> Diane,
>
> If you rely on Oracle to do the checking, it will
> be much faster.
>
> Jared
>
>
> create or replace function is_number( chk_data_in
> varchar2 )
> return boolean
> is
> dummy number(38,4);
> begin
> dummy := to_number(chk_data_in);
> return true;
> exception
> when value_error then
> return false;
> when others then
> raise;
> end;
> /
>
> show errors function is_number
>
>
> declare
> v_test varchar2(10) := '1E';
> begin
> if is_number(v_test) then
> dbms_output.put_line(v_test ||
> ' is a number');
> else
> dbms_output.put_line(v_test ||
> ' is NOT a number');
> end if;
> end;
> /
>
>
> On Friday 18 May 2001 11:27,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > You could always write your own function. Or you
> could do something
> using
> > the replace() function, maybe like this (again,
> untested):
> >
> > select circ_id, circ_num from circuit
> > where replace(circ_num,
> >
>
'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ1234567890',
> >
>
'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ')
> is not null;
> >
> > Depending on your data, you may need to check for
> punctuation and special
> > characters as well.
> >
> > HTH,
> >
> > Diana Duncan
> > TITAN Technology Partners
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> > Glenn Travis
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> >
> > I have a table with a column of varchar2(50)
> datatype. We are building a
> > new table and the values in this column should all
> be numbers. I need to
> > query the table to find all rows which have a
> value in this column which
> is
> > not a valid number.
> >
> > Table:
> > circuit (circ_id (primary_key) number, circ_num
> varchar2(50))
> >
> > Example: find all values in circ_num which are
> not numbers.
> > how do I do something like 'select circ_id,
> circ_num from circuit where
> > circ_num not valid to_number(circ_num)'
> >
> > Is there a function to check this?
> >
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