null columns and memory?

  • From: ryan_gaffuri@xxxxxxxxxxx
  • To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 20:15:29 +0000

Someone at work told me the following. Having trouble confirming it in the 
docs. 

If you have a table with a nullable varchar column. If the field is left null 
no space will be taken up in the database. However, space will be reserved in 
memory for the column. Is this correct? 

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