Hi Alex Check this post by Jonathan: http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk/number_format.html Cheers Stefan On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 1:36 PM, amonte <ax.mount@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi > > I have dumped a block and trying to see the data it contains, for the > varchar2 it's quite simple we simply convert hex to ascii but for number I > cant find a suitable way, does anyone know how to convert this data? > > select > dbms_rowid.rowid_to_absolute_fno(rowid, 'SCOTT', 'EMP') ABS_FNO, > dbms_rowid.rowid_relative_fno(rowid) REL_FNO, > dbms_rowid.rowid_block_number(rowid) BLOCKNO, > dbms_rowid.rowid_row_number(rowid) ROWNO, > empno, ename > from emp > where empno = 7369 > > > ABS_FNO REL_FNO BLOCKNO ROWNO EMPNO ENAME > ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- > 8 8 10 0 7369 SMITH > > so I dump block 10 and check for row 0 and got this: > > tab 0, row 0, @0xb94 > tl: 38 fb: --H-FL-- lb: 0x0 cc: 8 > col 0: [ 3] c2 4a 46 --> EMPNO > col 1: [ 5] 53 4d 49 54 48 --> ENAME > col 2: [ 5] 43 4c 45 52 4b > col 3: [ 3] c2 50 03 > col 4: [ 7] 77 b4 0c 11 01 01 01 > col 5: [ 2] c2 09 > col 6: *NULL* > col 7: [ 2] c1 15 > > so converting 53 4d 49 54 48 to ascii we got SMITH but to get the EMPNO > (7369) using c2 4a 46 ? > > TIA > > Alex > > -- ========================= Stefan P Knecht Senior Consultant Infrastructure Managed Services Trivadis AG Europa-Strasse 5 CH-8152 Glattbrugg Phone +41-44-808 70 20 Fax +41-808 70 12 Mobile +41-79-571 36 27 stefan.knecht@xxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.trivadis.com OCP 9i/10g SCSA SCNA =========================