Select bitand(1,1) from dual


John

>Hi All,
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>We have a field in our database that stores a BIT value in character format. Each of the BITs represents a user group. Since there are only 20 user groups we have yet to run into the 32 BIT limit problem.
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>I am currently converting the programs to access an ORACLE database. So the following query is no longer valid because of the BITTEST() Function.
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>SELECT EMP.pers_no FROM EMP WHERE BITTEST( VAL(EMP.login_lvl), 7 )
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>Is there a way to convert this? I'd like to create a Function on the database where I can just pass the BIT value to be tested and have all the PERS_NOs returned.
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>TIA
>Mike
>
>P.S. VFP6 SP5 Oracle 8i