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OCA /OCP Oracle Database 11g A ll-in-One Exam Guide- P49:There is an ever increasing demand for staff with IT industry certification. The benefits to employers are significant—they can be certain that staff have a certain level of competence—and the benefits to the individuals, in terms of demand for their services, are equally great. Many employers are now requiring technical staff to have certifications, and many IT purchasers will not buy from firms that do not have certified staff. | OCA OCP Oracle Database 11g All-in-One Exam Guide 436 TIP Although implicit data type conversions are available it is more reliable to convert values explicitly from one data type to another using single-row conversion functions. Converting character information to NUMBER and DATE relies on format masks. Explicit Data Type Conversion Functions that convert items from one data type to another are known as explicit data type conversion functions. These return a value guaranteed to be the type required and offer a safe and reliable method of converting data items. NUMBER and DATE items can be converted explicitly into character items using the TO_CHAR function. A character string can be explicitly changed into a NUMBER using the TO_NUMBER function. The TO_DATE function is used to convert character strings into DATE items. Oracle s format masks enable a wide range of control over character to number and character to date conversions. EXAM TIP Your understanding of commonly used format models or masks will be practically tested with questions like Predict the result of a function call such as TO_CHAR TO_DATE 01-JAN-00 DD-MON-RR Day . Use the TO_CHAR TO_NUMBER and TO_DATE Conversion Functions This certification objective contains a systematic description of the TO_NUMBER TO_DATE and TO_CHAR functions with examples. The discussion of TO_CHAR is divided into the conversion of date items to characters and numbers to characters. This separation is warranted by the availability of different format masks for controlling conversion to character values. These conversion functions exist alongside many others but are the most widely used. Using the Conversion Functions Many situations demand the use of conversion functions. They may range from formatting DATE fields in a report to ensuring that numeric digits extracted from character fields are correctly converted into numbers before applying them in an arithmetic expression. Table 10-3 illustrates the syntax of the single-row .

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