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Showing a negative # as a positive?

I'm trying to show some data, and for a complicated reason, all of the integers in a particular field are negative. They're converted to positive in the program that uses them, but I'm using a SELECT statement to show the numbers, and I need them to be shown as positives (and realistically I'd love to show a "$" in front of them, but one battle at a time").

I don't have a CLUE how to do this; is there a way to do this in the select? Hopefully somebody here can help.
May 16 '08 #1
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deepuv04
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I'm trying to show some data, and for a complicated reason, all of the integers in a particular field are negative. They're converted to positive in the program that uses them, but I'm using a SELECT statement to show the numbers, and I need them to be shown as positives (and realistically I'd love to show a "$" in front of them, but one battle at a time").

I don't have a CLUE how to do this; is there a way to do this in the select? Hopefully somebody here can help.
Hi,
use the following query

Expand|Select|Wrap|Line Numbers
  1.  
  2.    select abs(column_name) from table_name
  3.  
May 16 '08 #2

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