Oracle Built-in Datatypes


Some of the Oracle built-in datatypes are listed below:
CHAR
Fixed-length string such as 'Poke Mon'
FLOAT
Double precision real number
DATE
Date fields or time information like '24-09-2022'. There are several date formats and the standard date format for input and output is 'DD-MON-YY', e.g., '01-JAN-23'.
INTEGER
Integer number
NUMBER
The storage of both fixed and floating point number by using the format NUMBER(precision, scale), where precision is the total number of digits and scale is the number of digits to right of decimal point. For the example of “amount number(5,2)”, 123.46 is valid, and 12345 is invalid.
REAL
Real number
SMALLINT
Short integer
VARCHAR
It is the same as VARCHAR2.
VARCHAR2
Variable-length strings. It was used before the VARCHAR definition is finalized.


Demonstration
Below is an SQL test area from W3Schools, which uses the well-known Northwind sample database. The tables here are for read only because of the problem of embedding the scripts. For a fully working example, check this by using Chrome.

SQL Statement:

Edit the SQL statement and click     to see the result, or  

Result:
The Database includes:
The Database includes:

TablenameRecord
Customers91
Categories8
Employees10
OrderDetails518
Orders196
Products77
Shippers3
Suppliers29





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