topic Re: Data Types in Application Development and Automation Discussions

Data Types

Former Member — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 10:32:44 GMT

Hi All ,

Please can you resolev my query ..I am using DEC data type like... DEC(23.53) so can you tel me how much memory space occupied in bytes .

I try to searched it but I am not able to get it.

Plz help me

Thanks

Suraj

ramkumar007 — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 10:48:18 GMT

DEC: Counter or amount field with decimal point, sign, and commas separating thousands. A DEC field has a maximum length of 31 places.

actuvally

min max

-2147483648

2147483647

dec(23.53) may be it's its occupied 17

Thanks and regards

Ram

former_member219762 — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 18:41:47 GMT

Hi,

We can find it in memory analysis in debugger.

Regards,

Sreenivas.

nishantbansal91 — Tue, 19 Nov 2013 19:35:59 GMT

Hi Sreenivasa Rao Yarru,

Below is the Initial Memory allocated to each variable of type DEC.

data a TYPE DECFLOAT34. 16 bytes

data b TYPE DECFLOAT16. 8 bytes

data c TYPE dec03. 3 bytes

data d TYPE dec07. 4 bytes

data e TYPE dec12. 7 bytes

Thanks.

Nishant Bansal

Former Member — Wed, 20 Nov 2013 01:48:38 GMT

Hi Suraj,

The information is available on

So it can be minimum 8 to maximum 16 bytes depending on Float or Packed Decimal type.

BR.