Data Types in Oracle

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Complete Guide to Oracle Datatypes (Up to Oracle 12c)

Oracle uses and supports the following built-in Datatype categories in creating tables, declaring variables in PL/SQL etc.

Character Datatypes           – To store and manipulate character based values / strings

Numeric Datatypes             – To store and manipulate numbers

Date Datatypes                  – To store and manipulate date and time

LOB Datatypes                   – To store and manipulate large objects like text based files, images, videos etc.

RAW Datatypes                  - To store graphics, sound, documents etc.

ROWID Datatypes               - To store the addresses of every row in a database.