Re: Breaking integers into bytes in PL/SQL?
From: Thomas Kyte <tkyte_at_us.oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 15:15:17 -0500
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Date: Wed, 17 Nov 1999 15:15:17 -0500
Message-ID: <jAwzOA+vVnwzEK6Eo9uZRytF0ygc_at_4ax.com>
[Quoted] [Quoted] A copy of this was sent to Jan-Helge Bergesen <jhb_at_protek.no> (if that email address didn't require changing) On Wed, 17 Nov 1999 15:43:25 +0100, you wrote:
>Can it be done?
>
>It sure would save us quite some work..
what are you trying to do? can you give an example of what you want?
numbers in Oracle are stored in a device independent format -- and maybe upto 22 bytes in length. there probably is some way to do what you want if we know what it is...
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