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Why does Rac return all results as character strings?

April 26, 2017character RAC results Return strings

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Why does Rac return all results as character strings?

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This is to allow Rac to be used as a mini report writer. Using character strings makes it easy to incorporate a number of report features easily without any added intervention from the user.Many users want a result with breaking on row fields and therefore blanks and other strings mixed with numeric data. They then want to immediately export the result to various other packages.Character strings make this very easy to do.