Oracle NUMBER(p) storage size?
I've searched for it but i can't find a conclusive answer to my question... I need to know what is the storage size of a number(p) field in Oracle. Examples: NUMBER(1), NUMBER(3), NUMBER(8), NUMBER(10) etc... The storage used depends on the actual numeric value, as well as the column precision and scale of the column. The Oracle 11gR2 concepts guide says : Oracle Database stores numeric data in variable-length format. Each value is stored in scientific notation, with 1 byte used to store the exponent. The database uses up to 20 bytes to store the mantissa, which is the part of a floating-point