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Chapter 3, Problem 7TD
Program Plan Intro
Data type:
The data type is used to store the type of data which should be specified for the column in a table.
Some of the commonly used data types are:
- CHAR(n)
- VARCHAR(n)
- DATE
- NUMBER
- DECIMAL(p,q)
- INT
- SMALLINT
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