Storage space of NUMBER

From: Cable Services Group <r.dunham_at_gonix>
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 1994 12:20:25 GMT
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How does Oracle physically store the NUMBER datatype? For example in Sybase, a NUMBER(10) whould store as 6 bytes -- 2 mininum and 1 byte for every 2 digits. Received on Fri Sep 16 1994 - 14:20:25 CEST

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