Re: db2 sequence/autonumber

2003-11-17 Thread Ben Doom
I didn't design the DB, and at this point, I'm screwing with it as little as possible. But yeah, that's a good idea for next time. --benD Jochem van Dieten wrote: > Ben Doom wrote: >  >I've got a similar problem (where I have to sort by a length expressed >  >as "11 inches" or whatever). > >

Re: db2 sequence/autonumber

2003-11-17 Thread Ben Doom
I've got a similar problem (where I have to sort by a length expressed as "11 inches" or whatever). Can you do something like "order by char_length(pk), pk"?  That's how I got around the problem. --benD Stephenie Hamilton wrote: > hey guys, anyone here familiar with db2? we are just starting

db2 sequence/autonumber

2003-11-17 Thread Stephenie Hamilton
hey guys, anyone here familiar with db2? we are just starting work on a fb project and the dba setup the pk field as a text field we can't get ahold of him until next week and now if we try to use MAX() to get the highest number, it thinks 9 is higher than 10 (because it is text), but i was wonder