BIGINT support?

From: Jean-Luc Fontaine <jfontain_at_free.fr>
Date: 13 Mar 2004 04:09:40 -0800
Message-ID: <4244613b.0403130409.17eb54e6@posting.google.com>

I am wondering whether Oracle supports something like the BIGINT type (MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQLite, ...), which can handle 64 bits signed numbers:
from -9223372036854775808 to 9223372036854775807.

After searching on the web, it does not seem so (yet?). Can the 2 extreme numbers above be stored in and read back from a column of some type, and which type?
(note: in MySQL, BIGINT is equivalent to BIGINT(20): maybe something like NUMERIC(20,0) would do?.

Many thanks in advance,

Jean-Luc Received on Sat Mar 13 2004 - 06:09:40 CST