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TD11 - 11 Jan 2005 19:41 GMT

I'm just playing around by learning to write my queries in SQL just for fun.
I want to convert a text field to a number in the select statement. So, I
think I need to use the CDBL to convert the field, but I can't get the exact
syntax.

CDBL ([fieldname]) AS "NewName"

Am I close?

Ted

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Brendan Reynolds - 11 Jan 2005 19:52 GMT

Very close - just take out the quotes around NewName.

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> I'm just playing around by learning to write my queries in SQL just for
> fun.
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> Ted

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