John - Since nobody has replied to your question, I discussed it with a fellow COBOL programmer. I think that in COBOL you normally would use this in an iterative loop, as a comparison. In SQL itself, you rarely iterate, so you probably don't have that much need for a HIGH-VALUE. In PL/SQL you might be more likely to need it. Myself, I have used such a thing in the C language before, and there was usually a precompiler value that you could include. For Oracle, the maximum integer that can be represented is 38 9's times 10 to the 125th. power. Here is a web address that lists a lot of the Oracle limits as of 8.0.5.
http://storacle.princeton.edu:9001/oracle8-doc/server.805/a58242/ch5.htm Dennis Williams DBA Lifetouch, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -----Original Message----- Sent: Thursday, September 19, 2002 12:21 PM To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L Is there a Oracle equivalent to the Cobol HIGH-VALUES value? John -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: John Dunn INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.com -- Author: DENNIS WILLIAMS INET: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).
