Predicate Order

A recent OTN post demonstrated a very important point about looking at execution plans – especially when you don’t use the right data types. The question was:

We’ve this query which throws invalid number

SELECT * FROM table A
WHERE A.corporate_id IN (59375,54387) AND TRUNC(created_dt) BETWEEN '19-DEC-14' AND '25-DEC-14';

However it works fine if we use not in instead of in

SELECT * FROM table A  WHERE A.corporate_id  NOT IN (59375,54387) AND TRUNC(created_dt) BETWEEN '19-DEC-14' AND '25-DEC-14';

Please assist.

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