RE: data cleansing question

2002-04-22 Thread Koivu, Lisa
-Ursprüngliche Nachricht- Von: Koivu, Lisa [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Gesendet: Sonntag, 21. April 2002 12:48 An: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Betreff: RE: data cleansing question Hi Yechiel, I'm aware of the NULLIF clause. However my strategy has been to bring the entire

RE: data cleansing question

2002-04-22 Thread John Kanagaraj
Stefan, I've got a question regarding your migration host - oracle, since I'll have the same problem in the near future. How do you deal with the EBCDIC to ASCII problem ? Do you migrate from VSAM or DB2 ? Which version of Oracle are you on ? Can't reply to the second one, but take a

Re: data cleansing question

2002-04-21 Thread Yechiel Adar
Hello There are a few considerations: 1) If you import the data using the loader you can use the NULLIF clause so it will import all zero field as null. 2) Check carefully for usage of the fields in the WHERE part of the SQL. Putting nulls instead of zero can cause the users to do outer

RE: data cleansing question

2002-04-21 Thread Koivu, Lisa
Database Administrator Fairfield Resorts, Inc. Ft. Lauderdale, FL, USA -Original Message- From: Yechiel Adar [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Sunday, April 21, 2002 5:33 AM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: data cleansing question Hello There are a few

RE: data cleansing question

2002-04-18 Thread Mercadante, Thomas F
-L Subject: Re: data cleansing question Do you have mainframe programs that will be brought over to use this mainframe data? If so, they will likely have problems with nulls. If there will only be new programs accessing this data, then it sounds fine. Will there by any statistical

Re: data cleansing question

2002-04-17 Thread Marc Perkowitz
Do you have mainframe programs that will be brought over to use this mainframe data? If so, they will likely have problems with nulls. If there will only be new programs accessing this data, then it sounds fine. Will there by any statistical work on these columns? Averages, for example, will

RE: data cleansing question

2002-04-17 Thread Koivu, Lisa
PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Subject: Re: data cleansing question Do you have mainframe programs that will be brought over to use this mainframe data? If so, they will likely have problems with nulls. If there will only be new programs accessing this data