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Re: Is there an INTEGER datatype

From: Doug Cowles <dcowles_at_nospambigfoot.com>
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1999 16:02:30 -0400
Message-ID: <38078856.825B1A8D@nospambigfoot.com>


I guess that's my original confusion - under ANSI datatype support, it indicates that most of these datatypes are really under the covers converted to variations of NUMBER. If this is the case, then I don't see any reason to use them. Is this true? And what does everyone else think?

fumi wrote:

> Doug Cowles <dcowles_at_nospambigfoot.com> wrote in message
> news:37FED0DB.DEE58F0D_at_nospambigfoot.com...
> > Any idea where I can find some documentation on these?
> >
> > Terry Dykstra wrote:
>
> Take a look at "Datatype - ANSI datatype support" in the Oracle SQL
> Reference.


Received on Fri Oct 15 1999 - 15:02:30 CDT

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