Snippet Name: CHARTOROWID
Description: CHARTOROWID converts a value from CHAR, VARCHAR2, NCHAR, or NVARCHAR2 datatype to ROWID datatype.
This function does not support CLOB data directly. However, CLOBs can be passed in as arguments through implicit data conversion.
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» Converting Rows to Columns
» UNISTR
» TRANSLATE
» TO_YMINTERVAL
» TO_TIMESTAMP_TZ
» TO_TIMESTAMP
» TO_SINGLE_BYTE
» TO_NUMBER
» TO_NCLOB
» TO_NCHAR
» TO_MULTI_BYTE
» TO_LOB
» TO_DSINTERVAL
» TO_DATE
» TO_CLOB
» TO_CHAR
» TO_BINARY_FLOAT
» TO_BINARY_DOUBLE
» TIMESTAMP_TO_SCN
» SCN_TO_TIMESTAMP
» ROWIDTONCHAR
» ROWIDTOCHAR
» REFTOHEX
» RAWTONHEX
» RAWTOHEX
» NUMTOYMINTERVAL
» NUMTODSINTERVAL
» HEXTORAW
» DECOMPOSE
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Language: PL/SQL
Highlight Mode: PLSQL
Last Modified: March 05th, 2009
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CHARTOROWID(<char>);
-- This example converts a character rowid
-- representation to a rowid. (The actual rowid
-- is different for each database instance.)
SELECT last_name FROM employees
WHERE ROWID = CHARTOROWID('AAAFd1AAFAAAABSAA/');
LAST_NAME
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Greene
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