Re: Riddle me this Oracle riddle...

Clearly the best guess is (e) - none of the above. It is unlikely to be based on incoming data for reasons of bounds checking. Which means that you have given us 3 static values from a range of 32767 which may be possible. ;)

I haven't checked it - but if I had to guess, I would guess, based on a vague memory of
something I read somewhere, that the answer is 500 bytes.

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-----Original Message-----
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Date: 05 March 2002 22:47

|Riddle me this Batman.....
|
|Assume Oracle9i...
|
|assume you have a table thusly defined:
|
|Table Name: TEST
|col_1 number
|col_2 varchar2(200)
|
|And now a procedure defined thusly:
|
|create or replace procedure blah_blah
|( p_in_one test.col_2%type )
|
|Now, here is the question, how much memory will p_in_one have
allocated to
|it within PL/SQL?? Is the answer:
|
|a. 200 bytes
|b. 2000 bytes
|c. 4000 bytes
|d. It will be defined based on the size of the data actually being
passed
|into the parameter of the PL/SQL procedure
|e. None of the above.
|
|I'm currious what your answers will be... ;-)
|
|
|Robert G. Freeman - Oracle8i OCP
|Oracle DBA Technical Lead
|CSX Midtier Database Administration
|
|The Cigarette Smoking Man: Anyone who can appease a man's conscience
can
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