Re: default precision and scale of NUMBER datatype?

Allen

Oracle stores numbers in an internal, portable form, to 38 significant digits.

Hope this answers your question.

Mark

On Tue, 22 Jun 1999 19:20:57 GMT, allenu_at_my-deja.com wrote:

>Can someone tell me what the default precision and scal of the NUMBER
>datatype is if these two details aren't specified? i.e. some_number
>number(10) gives precision of 10, but what about some_number number?
>
>Thanks in advance,
>Allen
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Received on Thu Jun 24 1999 - 08:12:34 CDT