Re: BIGINT support?

Jean-Luc Fontaine wrote:

> 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

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