Datatype of ROWID in Oracle/SQL
问题 What is the data type of ROWID in Oracle/SQL? How is this value stored? 回答1: The following link explains what the data type for ROWID is - ROWID data type ROWID is stored as a psuedocolumn. 回答2: The ROWID (since Oracle8 called extended ROWID, till Oracle7 now called restricted ROWID) stores/encodes the physical location of a row. The (extended) ROWID encodes (in hexadecimal format) the following fields: OBJID (unique id of the object the row belongs to), the FILENO (relative file number