Skip to Main Content

SQL & PL/SQL

Announcement

For appeals, questions and feedback about Oracle Forums, please email oracle-forums-moderators_us@oracle.com. Technical questions should be asked in the appropriate category. Thank you!

Field size

RobeenFeb 13 2020 — edited Feb 14 2020

Oracle DB 12.2.0

RHEL 7.4

Hello Team,

I have a few queries regarding datatypes used for calculating field size

https://docs.oracle.com/database/121/SQLQR/sqlqr06002.htm#SQLQR959

As per doc above,

1. NUMBER(10) - does this mean the field stores NUMBER of size 10 bytes?

2. BINARY_DOUBLE - what size by default is binary_double? Is it 8 bytes?

3. TIMESTAMP(6) - does this mean TIMESTAMP of size 6 bytes? As per doc, it says frational seconds precision.  Or does this  field takes by default 11 bytes irrespective of the fractional seconds precision - TIMESTAMP(6), TIMESTAMP(10) ...?

Can anyone pls validate code below?

set serveroutput on

DECLARE

ub NUMBER;

ab NUMBER;

cl sys.create_table_cost_columns;

BEGIN

cl := sys.create_table_cost_columns(

sys.create_table_cost_colinfo('VARCHAR2',11 ) ,

sys.create_table_cost_colinfo('VARCHAR2',2 ) ,

sys.create_table_cost_colinfo('VARCHAR2',20 ) ,

sys.create_table_cost_colinfo('NUMBER',20) ,

sys.create_table_cost_colinfo('NUMBER',20) ,

sys.create_table_cost_colinfo('TIMESTAMP', 11) ,

sys.create_table_cost_colinfo('VARCHAR2',30 ),

sys.create_table_cost_colinfo('VARCHAR2',20 ) ,

sys.create_table_cost_colinfo('VARCHAR2',20 ) ,

sys.create_table_cost_colinfo('VARCHAR2',10 ) ,

sys.create_table_cost_colinfo('BINARY_DOUBLE' ,8),

sys.create_table_cost_colinfo('VARCHAR2',255) ,

sys.create_table_cost_colinfo('NUMBER',10) ,

sys.create_table_cost_colinfo('TIMESTAMP',11),

sys.create_table_cost_colinfo('VARCHAR2',100 ) ,

sys.create_table_cost_colinfo('VARCHAR2',100 )

);

DBMS_SPACE.CREATE_TABLE_COST('TESTTBS',cl,16709155 ,10,ub,ab);

DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Used s = ' || TO_CHAR(ub));

DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('Allocated s = ' || TO_CHAR(ab));

END;

/

Regards,

Joe

Comments
Post Details
Added on Feb 13 2020
8 comments
317 views