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I am new to oracle and sql in general, I received an oracle create schema that needs to be converted using non-oracle syntax.

What does the following syntax mean?



Any information would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.
 
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Post the whole command. Oracle's syntax is pretty rich and this excerpt doesn't look just right to me. You might also want to consult the documentation.
 
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NUM_ACTION_CODES(1:5) char(20) NULL




 
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I'm sorry, I won't be able to help. It is giving syntax error to me (version 10g) and I can't find anything like it in the documentation, not even in 11g.

Are you absolutely sure this was successfully run on Oracle sometime? As far as I know, all Oracle features are documented, even those that are optional, and I don't see place for parenthesized numbers delimited by colon between the column name and data type in any of the syntax diagrams.
 
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It looks like some kind of check constraints (just guessing), but in Oracle the notation is different:


I've never seen your notation.
 
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