What Are the Differences between NUMBER and BINARY_FLOAT

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What Are the Differences between NUMBER and BINARY_FLOAT

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What Are the Differences between NUMBER and BINARY_FLOAT? - Oracle DBA FAQ - Understanding SQL Basics

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The main differences between NUMBER and BINARY_FLOAT are:

NUMBER stores values as fixed-point numbers using 1 to 22 bytes.
BINARY_FLOAT stores values as single precision floating-point numbers.

2007-04-24, 5715👍, 0💬

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