Re: Riddle me this Oracle riddle...

Robert,

If this was a test, and you know the answer, please tell us what it was and how you got it. (trade secrets need not be revealed, of course). I thought I knew one way to find it, but the dump command I want to use doesn't work on 9 !!

Using rather crude methods, some tests I have just invented seem to indicate that the answer is 4,000 bytes.

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|
||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
||

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