I think so...but our place is locked down tighter than....well...it's tight.
Being a financial institution I need to go thru a whole approval process to
get read access on anything...


-----Original Message-----
From: Matthew Walker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 6:44 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: ORDER BY and UPPER()

Isn't there a USER_TAB_COLUMNS view in Oracle?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stacy Young [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Wednesday, 17 July 2002 10:31 a.m.
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: RE: ORDER BY and UPPER()
> 
> 
> Can't have to do it at the DB level...
> I'm trying to use DECODE right now...think it might work....
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Todd [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Tuesday, July 16, 2002 6:25 PM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Re: ORDER BY and UPPER()
> 
> Put a condition using isNumeric() ...?
> 
> ~Todd
> 
> At 06:20 PM 7/16/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> >I've got a particular query in which I'd like to have the 
> ORDER BY clause
> >dynamic so that I can pass it into my CFC as an argument. 
> Piece of cake
> >except for a minor detail. If the order by column is a 
> string I need to use
> >UPPER() in order for it to be ordered properly...and 
> contrary to that, if I
> >use UPPER() and the column is numeric it gets casted to a 
> string !!  Catch
> >22. There may be a simple solution...anyone have a suggestion?
> >
> >
> >
> >Using Oracle.
> >
> >
> >
> >ThX!
> >
> >
> >
> >Stacy Young
> >System Integration Specialist, Architecture
> >Surefire Commerce
> >http://www.sfcommerce.com <http://www.sfcommerce.com>
> >(p) 514-380-2700 ext: 3234
> >(f) 514-380-2760
> 
> Dang Stace, you need a shorter disclaimer!
> 
> 
> 
> 

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