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Oracle in a Nutshell
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Oracle in a Nutshell

by Rick Greenwald, David C. Kreines
December 2002
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
928 pages
85h 29m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Parameters

expr

Data to be dumped. Can be a column name or a valid SQL expression.

return_format

Format that controls the manner in which the dumped data is formatted. Select from the following values:

8

Use octal notation.

10

Use decimal notation. This is the default.

16

Use hexadecimal notation.

17

Display the result using characters.

If you add 1000 to the format specifier, DUMP also returns the name of the character set.

start_position

Specifies the starting byte for the data to be dumped. The default is to start with the first byte of data.

length

Specifies the number of bytes to dump. The default is to dump all the data.

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