When we create backup of a table using below lines of codes, it quadruples the length of character variable. However, length of Number variables remains unchanged (refer to below screen shots).
PROC SQL;
CREATE TABLE <NEW TABLE NAME> AS
SELECT * FROM <EXISTING TABLE NAME>;
QUIT;
Why is it so? Here, Database is Oracle. I'm not sure if this happens across all DB servers.
Different systems have different defaults and assumptions.
For instance, in your pictures, in the Oracle DB numeric length is 16, in SAS it is 17, this is due to SAS including '.' as a character, where Oracle does not. As for the character length, maybe this post will help, it is the storage difference between them.
Shouldn't make any difference though.
Different systems have different defaults and assumptions.
For instance, in your pictures, in the Oracle DB numeric length is 16, in SAS it is 17, this is due to SAS including '.' as a character, where Oracle does not. As for the character length, maybe this post will help, it is the storage difference between them.
Shouldn't make any difference though.
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