Largest number of digits for the NUMBER data type?

What length more of a NUMBER that Oracle will "support"?

The documentation says the following:

Limitations of the data type says:

«Can be represented in a comprehensive precision 38 digits»

NUMBER of Data Types says:

"Oracle guarantees portability of numbers with precision of up to 20 digits of base-100, which equals 39 or 40 decimal digits according to the position of the decimal point."

I realize account that if I define a column as simply NUMBER, I can insert numbers with a size up to 126 characters.  However, Oracle seems to maintain only the first 40 digits in MOST cases.  The largest number of digits, it seems to allow is 40 before it begins to be replaced by 0.

With numbers that have more than 40 figures, Oracle will sometimes replace all numbers according to the 38th numbers with a 0 and sometimes replace 0 after the digit 39th or 40th.

Therefore, what is the largest number of digits, can be trusted to safely store Oracle?

This is the code I used for this testing process.

create the table max_num (num number);

declare

number of l_x;

Start

for x in 1.200

loop

l_x: = x;

insert into max_num values (rpad (1, x, 1));

end loop;

exception

while others then

dbms_output.put_line ('STOP: ' | l_x);

dbms_output.put_line (SQLERRM);

end;

/

Select num, length (replace (num, 0)) of max_num;

What length more of a NUMBER that Oracle will "support"?

You have already given your own answer. If 'length': the maximum number of digits is written the doc gives you the answer:

999... (38 9's) x 10 value maximum125

The 38/39/40, hereinafter referred to as the doc means "significant digits". This is why rounding or truncation occurs if you provide more significant digits of 38/39/40.

Oracle stores the numbers internally in a binary format 21 bytes using a documented structure in the doc of the OIC in the section 'NUMBER'.

http://docs.Oracle.com/CD/E11882_01/AppDev.112/e10646/oci03typ.htm#i423684

Oracle database stores the values of the NUMBER data type in a variable length format. The first byte is the exponent and is followed by 1 to 20 mantissa bytes. The high bit of the exponent byte is the sign bit; It is defined for positive numbers, and it is cleared for negative numbers. The lower 7 bits represent the exponent, which is a number of base-100 with an offset of 65.

This article from doc continues to show you how to convert the internal format to the real value.

An additional byte of 1 is used for all types of data to store the length; That's why you often see docs saying numbers can take 22 bytes.

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