CHARTOROWID

Syntax

Purpose

CHARTOROWID converts a value from CHAR, VARCHAR2, NCHAR, or NVARCHAR2 data type to ROWID data type.

This function does not support CLOB data directly. However, CLOBs can be passed in as arguments through implicit data conversion.

Examples

The following example converts a character rowid representation to a rowid. (The actual rowid is different for each database instance.)

SELECT last_name
  FROM employees
  WHERE ROWID = CHARTOROWID('AAAFd1AAFAAAABSAA/');
 
LAST_NAME
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Greene