Quick NVL question

Hi,
in the SELECT clause expression NVL(<col>,<val>), can <val> be an expression
that includes other columns from the same table as <col>, or even other
tables?
Is the answer to the above question the same if the NVL occurs in the WHERE
clause? (or ON clause in an [ANSI] join?)
Thanks.
Ken Quirici
[email protected]

for example you have a table as
Tablea
Col1 col2
abc xxx
abc xxx
null yyy
null yyy
select nvl(col1,col2) from tablea
abc
abc
yyy
yyy
select nvl(col1,col2) from tablea
where nvl(col1,col2)='yyy'
yyy
yyy

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Hi all
Hope all is well ......
I have a quick trim question I want to remove part of a string and I am finding it difficult to achieve what I need
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[/code]
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[code]
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there's several solutions:
// 1 :
//you do it twice because there's a space between "read" and "only"
int stn;
if ((stn = trim.lastIndexOf(' ')) != -1){
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if ((stn = trim.lastIndexOf(' ')) != -1){
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//2 :
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if ((stn = trim.toUpperCase().lastIndexOf("READ ONLY")) != -1){
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//3: use StringTokenizer:
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perhaps solution 2 is better, because you can put it in a separate method and remove the string you want to...
somthing like:
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Hi all,
Could anyone advise me if i can add anything within - header('Location: http://www.mysite.co.uk/thankyou.html'); in the script below so as the page
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andy7719 wrote:
Mr powers gave me that script so im rather confused at this point in time
I don't think I "gave" you that script. I might have corrected a problem with it, but I certainly didn't write the original script.
What you're using is far from perfect, but to suggest it would lay you open to MySQL injection attacks is ludicrous. For you to be prone to MySQL injection, you would need to be entering the data into a MySQL database, not sending it by email.
There is a malicious attack known as email header injection, which is a serious problem with many PHP email processing scripts. However, to be prone to email header injection, you would need to use the fourth argument of mail() to insert form data into the email headers. Since your fourth argument is null, that danger doesn't exist.
One thing that might be worth doing is checking that the email address doesn't contain a lot of illegal characters, because that's a common feature of header injection attacks. This is how I would tidy up your script:
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Create a new page called sorry.html, with a message along the lines of "Sorry, there was an error sending your message". Don't put anything about illegal attacks. Just be neutral.
By the way, when posting questions here, don't use meaningless subject lines, such as "Quick script question". If you're posting here, it's almost certain to be a question about a script. It doesn't matter whether it's quick. Use the subject line to tell people what it's about.

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Edited by: vi2167 on May 27, 2009 2:06 PM
Edited by: vi2167 on May 27, 2009 2:07 PM

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I had bios version KH0, and MSI live update found KH1, i downloaded and flashed successfully (DOS window said please restart and press any key to exit) so i did, restarted my computer, and MSI live update utlity and gpu-z and MSI afterburner are all reporting the same bios version i had with the KH0, version 70.10.17.00.01 & date November 09, 2010
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