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We are trying to do a compute for when a date is missing from our oracle table. There seems to be an issue between running the same code in a "where" statement than in an "if" statement.

When I run

IF DATE_TAKEN NE MISSING THEN 0 ELSE 1; 
I get the error
(FOC280) COMPARISON BETWEEN COMPUTATIONAL AND ALPHA VALUES IS NOT ALLOWED

but if I run
WHERE DATE_TAKEN NE MISSING; 
there are no errors and everyone is happy. Is there some hidden reason that my code is not working?
 
Posts: 77 | Location: Chicago, IL | Registered: May 06, 2004Report This Post
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No guarantees that my memory is correct, but I seem to think that the phrase

IS-NOT MISSING

used to work.
 
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