What are the different types of data fields in Oracle databases?
The Oracle database offers a variety of field types, including the following:
- Character types include CHAR, VARCHAR2, NCHAR, NVARCHAR2, etc.
- Numeric types such as NUMBER, INTEGER, FLOAT, and REAL are included.
- Date and Time types: including DATE, TIMESTAMP, INTERVAL, etc.
- Binary Large Object (BLOB), Character Large Object (CLOB), and National Character Large Object (NCLOB) are types of binary data types.
- Boolean type: includes BOOLEAN.
- RAW type: used for storing raw binary data.
- ROWID type: used to uniquely identify rows in the database.
- Variable Array type: used to store arrays of varying lengths.
- XML type: used for storing XML documents.
- User Defined Type (UDT): Customizable database field types can be created by users.
The above are common field types in Oracle databases, choose the appropriate one based on specific requirements to store data.