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Oracle® OLAP DML Reference
11g Release 2 (11.2)

Part Number E17122-07
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CHARTOROWID

The CHARTOROWID function converts a value from a text data type to ROWID data type.

Return Value

ROWID

Syntax

CHARTOROWID(char)

Parameters

char

A text expression to convert.

Examples

Example 7-43 Converting a Value from Text to a Rowid

Assume that your analytic workspace contains the erowid dimension with the following definition.

DEFINE erowid DIMENSION ROWID

As the following code illustrates, you can add text values to it using the CHARTOROWID function.

MAINTAIN erowid ADD CHARTOROWID('AAAFd1AAFAAAABSAA/')
REPORT erowid
 
EROWID
------------------------------
AAAFd1AAFAAAABSAA/