SQL Data Types, LOB Data Types in Oracle SQL | Oracle SQL Tutorials -28

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I will explain SQL Data Types, LOB Data Types in Oracle SQL in this post of Oracle SQL Tutorial series.

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Data Types

This part can be a bit boring data types will be examined briefly.

Numeric: Store the numerical values used in arithmetic operations like 0,1,2,3…8,9

Character: The data type that store a character like a,b,c….x,y,z

Boolean: store either True or False value.

Datetime: store the Data type with date and time like 15/07/2020

Number: numeric data is stored. NUMBER (full decimal) like 0,1,2,3…8,9

PLS_INTEGER – BINARY_INTEGER: Unlike Number type, it performs faster arithmetic operations and takes less space.

BINARY_FLOAT – BINARY_DOUBLE: The data type ends with f (5.67f) and ends with d in BINARY_DOUBLE.

VARCHAR2 – NVARCHAR2: Variable is the field in which the alphanumeric or byte data is stored.

TIMESTAMP: stores data of year, day, month, hour, minute and second.

LOB (Large Object) Data Types

Data types are data types that store data that are not of a particular data type (image, image, etc.).

BFILE: Large binary objects that are stored outside the database on the operating system. It cannot exceed 4GB.

BLOB: These are large binary objects that are stored in the database and are 8 to 12TB in size.

CLOB: Character data is in large blogs is 8 to 12TB size.

NCLOB: NLS stores Unicode data of character type. It is 8 to 12TB in size.

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