How can an Oracle NUMBER have a Scale larger than the Precision?
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The documentation states: "Precision can range from 1 to 38. Scale can range from -84 to 127".
How can the scale be larger than the precision? For example I can't create a column with the datatype NUMBER(10, 100)
. Shouldn't the Scale range from -38 to 38?
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