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Data type number x storage size

495403Mar 24 2010 — edited Mar 24 2010

Hi,

Looking at the values of data_length column in dba_tab_columns, it seems that Oracle uses 22bytes to store values of the Number data type (no matter the precision and scale used). Is that right?

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