Negative values in v$ views
From: John Verhoeven <johnv_at_acix.DIALix.oz.au>
Date: 1996/09/16
Message-ID: <johnv.0a26_at_acix.DIALix.oz.au>#1/1
Date: 1996/09/16
Message-ID: <johnv.0a26_at_acix.DIALix.oz.au>#1/1
When I select from the v$ views sometines I get negative values back.
Does this mean that the values are stored as signed values in the views and the value is now too large to be represented as a positive number?
Is selecting from the views using abs(col) going to give meaningful results?
Thanks.
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