Jason, try this URL: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/. 

 

HTH,

Steve in Memphis

 

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jason
Kramer
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 9:40am 09:40
To: RBASE-L Mailing List
Subject: [RBASE-L] - Two questions

 

Can someone please point me to the mailing list archives?  I know the
answer to this question has been on the list before, but I can't find
where I saved the answer.  Sorry about the duplication.

I have two text columns that I want to UNION, but they are different
lengths (100 and 36, if it matters), so I get a Column type mismatch in
UNION (2372) error.  Is there any way to cast or pad the smaller column
into a string that matches the larger one so the UNION will work?
Something along the lines of:

SELECT bigcol FROM MyTable WHERE <CONDITION> UNION <CAST OR PAD> SELECT
smallcol FROM MyTable WHERE <CONDITION>

I'm open to other suggestions.  I am trying to take the contents of
multiple columns and combine them into one column in a view (I only need
the combined data temporarily).
                                           Thanks,
                                           Jason



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