<div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal">We have a table which contains a 3 byte column with datatype CHAR(3)
whichwe want to redefine within the view as a CHAR(1) column and a CHAR(2) column. When I code the SUBSTR function the
resultingcolumn datatype is TEXT. I would like to see the CHAR datatype, is there anything I can do to set the proper
datatype.The sample view is below:<p class="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal">CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW schema.jeff_view AS
<pclass="MsoNormal"> SELECT col1 ,<p class="MsoNormal"> col2,<p class="MsoNormal">
Substr(col3,1,1)as col3_part1,<p class="MsoNormal"> Substr(col3,2) as col3_part2,<p
class="MsoNormal"> col4<p class="MsoNormal"> FROM schema.jeff_table;<p class="MsoNormal"> <p
class="MsoNormal">Anysuggestions would be appreciated.<p class="MsoNormal"> <p class="MsoNormal"><i><span
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