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Re: Database sizeing question - so how big is a number anyway?

From: Bob Fazio <rfazio_at_home.com.nospam>
Date: 2000/06/21
Message-ID: <RCW35.12844$A%3.139784@news1.rdc2.pa.home.com>#1/1

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"ken k" <khkachn_at_toadDIESPAMMER.net> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> I am trying to come up with some predictions on how much disk
> space a table and index is going to take. The table has one date field
> (7 bytes, found that one) and some number(10,0) and number(5,0)
> fields.
> I found the Oracle documentation on how to estimate a table and
> index size but have not idea how many bytes the number fields will
> take. The documentation seems to think you are estimating the size
> of an existing table, which is dumb IMHO. Does anyone know how
> the size works for number data type?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ken K
>
>
Received on Wed Jun 21 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT

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