Comments on: Substringing and Oracle SQL – Basic Trick http://peoplesofttipster.com/2008/08/18/substringing-and-oracle-sql-basic-trick/ A PeopleSoft Tips and Tricks Blog Wed, 14 Dec 2011 14:35:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ian http://peoplesofttipster.com/2008/08/18/substringing-and-oracle-sql-basic-trick/#comment-1778 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 18:47:36 +0000 http://duncandavies.wordpress.com/?p=136#comment-1778 Awesome! Thank you! Took me 3 years since it was posted, but I learned something new today.

]]> By: Dan http://peoplesofttipster.com/2008/08/18/substringing-and-oracle-sql-basic-trick/#comment-839 Tue, 19 Aug 2008 20:02:22 +0000 http://duncandavies.wordpress.com/?p=136#comment-839 In playing with this, noticed that if you use a number greater the the length of the string it will return null.

e.g., SUBSTR(‘Daniel’,-7) -> null

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