Return-Path: Received: from newsfeed.cts.com (newsfeed.cts.com [209.68.248.164]) by naude.co.za (8.11.2/8.11.2) with SMTP id g26DVX702950 for ; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 08:31:34 -0500 Received: from fatcity.UUCP (uucp@localhost) by newsfeed.cts.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with UUCP id FAA64850; Wed, 6 Mar 2002 05:25:47 -0800 (PST) Received: by fatcity.com (26-Feb-2001/v1.0g-b70/bab) via UUCP id 004208F7; Wed, 06 Mar 2002 05:08:40 -0800 Message-ID: Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 05:08:40 -0800 To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L X-Comment: Oracle RDBMS Community Forum X-Sender: "Mercadante, Thomas F" Sender: root@fatcity.com Reply-To: ORACLE-L@fatcity.com Errors-To: ML-ERRORS@fatcity.com From: "Mercadante, Thomas F" Subject: RE: Riddle me this Oracle riddle... Organization: Fat City Network Services, San Diego, California X-ListServer: v1.0g, build 70; ListGuru (c) 1996-2001 Bruce A. Bergman Precedence: bulk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Anybody wish to answer the following: Why does this matter? Or is this an OCP exam question? Personally, I fail to see the relevance. Tom Mercadante Oracle Certified Professional -----Original Message----- Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 4:48 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Riddle me this Batman..... Assume Oracle9i... assume you have a table thusly defined: Table Name: TEST col_1 number col_2 varchar2(200) And now a procedure defined thusly: create or replace procedure blah_blah ( p_in_one test.col_2%type ) Now, here is the question, how much memory will p_in_one have allocated to it within PL/SQL?? Is the answer: a. 200 bytes b. 2000 bytes c. 4000 bytes d. It will be defined based on the size of the data actually being passed into the parameter of the PL/SQL procedure e. None of the above. I'm currious what your answers will be... ;-) Robert G. Freeman - Oracle8i OCP Oracle DBA Technical Lead CSX Midtier Database Administration The Cigarette Smoking Man: Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him. -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Freeman, Robert INET: Robert_Freeman@csx.com Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: ListGuru@fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: Mercadante, Thomas F INET: Thomas.Mercadante@Labor.State.Ny.Us Fat City Network Services -- (858) 538-5051 FAX: (858) 538-5051 San Diego, California -- Public Internet access / Mailing Lists -------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: ListGuru@fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).