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Re: How to set the size of string returned by PL/SQL functions?

From: John Heitmuller. <john.heitmuller_at_jrfcorp.net>
Date: Sat, 06 Oct 2007 05:05:16 -0700
Message-ID: <1191672316.105435.259910@k79g2000hse.googlegroups.com> 





> but....WHY ? why do you care ? and why do you THINK you want to do it ?




Well, my thought was that if a desc of the view was showing a size of
4000 for the column returned by the function that I was consuming 3985
(4000-15) extra bytes for every record returned by a query of the
view.  Is that correct thinking?  Or, is oracle smarter than that?



John
Received on Sat Oct 06 2007 - 07:05:16 CDT












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