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Re: Help...128 bit numbers needed in oracle 126 bit world

From: Brett England <brett_at_recalldesign.com>
Date: 2000/04/19
Message-ID: <38FD01F4.B43ACA84@recalldesign.com>#1/1 






Couldn't you use a varchar field and just store the number in
Hexadecimal.


FFFF FFFF FFFF FFFF   a field of size VARCHAR(16).



brian engelhardt wrote:



> Hi,

>

> We need to represent userid's in a 128 bit format, unfortunately

> oracle does 38 digit decimal or 126 bit binary numbers.

>

> Does anybody know how to work around this efficiently?

>

> Thanks

Received on Wed Apr 19 2000 - 00:00:00 CDT












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