I just had a look into the respective Oracle documentation.
Currently they support bitwise operations on numbers up to 128 bits in plain SQL and 32 bits in PL/SQL.
The example coding there shows the decoding of complex information from a single "status" column.
That leaves me with questions like:
- is it a good choice to store different types of information in one column?
- is it a good choice to encode the information as binary?
- would I want to have 128 bits for that?
Right now, I don't actually see the use case here.
What would be your one?
- Lars