RE: Riddle me this Oracle riddle...

From: Mercadante, Thomas F <Thomas.Mercadante_at_Labor.State.Ny.Us>
Date: Wed, 06 Mar 2002 05:08:40 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004208F7.20020306050840@fatcity.com>

Anybody wish to answer the following:

Why does this matter? Or is this an OCP exam question?

Personally, I fail to see the relevance.

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional

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Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2002 4:48 PM
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Riddle me this Batman.....

Assume Oracle9i...

assume you have a table thusly defined:

Table Name: TEST
col_1 number
col_2 varchar2(200)

And now a procedure defined thusly:

create or replace procedure blah_blah
( p_in_one test.col_2%type )

Now, here is the question, how much memory will p_in_one have allocated to it within PL/SQL?? Is the answer:

1. 200 bytes
2. 2000 bytes
3. 4000 bytes
4. It will be defined based on the size of the data actually being passed into the parameter of the PL/SQL procedure
5. None of the above.

I'm currious what your answers will be... ;-)

Robert G. Freeman - Oracle8i OCP
Oracle DBA Technical Lead
CSX Midtier Database Administration

The Cigarette Smoking Man: Anyone who can appease a man's conscience can take his freedom away from him.

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