RE: High values

From: DENNIS WILLIAMS <DWILLIAMS_at_LIFETOUCH.COM>
Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 12:08:33 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004D43C9.20020919120833@fatcity.com>

John - Since nobody has replied to your question, I discussed it with a fellow COBOL programmer. I think that in COBOL you normally would use this in an iterative loop, as a comparison. In SQL itself, you rarely iterate, so you probably don't have that much need for a HIGH-VALUE. In PL/SQL you might be more likely to need it. Myself, I have used such a thing in the C language before, and there was usually a precompiler value that you could include. For Oracle, the maximum integer that can be represented is 38 9's times 10 to the 125th. power. Here is a web address that lists a lot of the Oracle limits as of 8.0.5.

 http://storacle.princeton.edu:9001/oracle8-doc/server.805/a58242/ch5.htm

Dennis Williams
DBA
Lifetouch, Inc.
dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com <mailto:dwilliams_at_lifetouch.com>

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Is there a Oracle equivalent to the Cobol HIGH-VALUES value?

John
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