Oracle Compliance with FIPS 127-2

Oracle complied fully with last Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS), which was FIPS PUB 127-2. That standard is no longer published. However, for users whose applications depend on information about the sizes of some database constructs that were defined in FIPS 127-2, the details of our compliance are listed in Table C-4.

Table C-4 Sizing for Database Constructs

Database Constructs	FIPS	Oracle Database
Length of an identifier (in bytes)	18	128
Length of `CHARACTER` data type (in bytes)	240	2,000
Decimal precision of `NUMERIC` data type	15	38
Decimal precision of `DECIMAL` data type	15	38
Decimal precision of `INTEGER` data type	9	38
Decimal precision of `SMALLINT` data type	4	38
Binary precision of `FLOAT` data type	20	126
Binary precision of `REAL` data type	20	63
Binary precision of `DOUBLE` `PRECISION` data type	30	126
Columns in a table	100	1,000
Values in an `INSERT` statement	100	1,000
SET clauses in an `UPDATE` statement (Note 1)	20	1,000
Length of a row (Note2, Note 3)	2,000	2,000,000
Columns in a `UNIQUE` constraint	6	32
Length of a `UNIQUE` constraint (Note 2)	120	(Note 4)
Length of foreign key column list (Note 2)	120	(Note 4)
Columns in a `GROUP` `BY` clause	6	255 (Note 5)
Length of `GROUP` `BY` column list	120	(Note 5)
Sort specifications in `ORDER` `BY` clause	6	255 (Note 5)
Length of `ORDER` `BY` column list	120	(Note 5)
Columns in a referential integrity constraint	6	32
Tables referenced in a SQL statement	15	No limit
Cursors simultaneously open	10	(Note 6)
Items in a `SELECT` list	100	1,000

Note 1: The number of SET clauses in an UPDATE statement refers to the number items separated by commas following the SET keyword.

Note 2: The FIPS PUB defines the length of a collection of columns to be the sum of: twice the number of columns, the length of each character column in bytes, decimal precision plus 1 of each exact numeric column, binary precision divided by 4 plus 1 of each approximate numeric column.

Note 3: The Oracle limit for the maximum row length is based on the maximum length of a row containing a LONG value of length 2 gigabytes and 999 VARCHAR2 values, each of length 4000 bytes: 2(254) + 231 + (999(4000)).

Note 4: The Oracle limit for a UNIQUE key is half the size of an Oracle data block (specified by the initialization parameter DB_BLOCK_SIZE) minus some overhead.

Note 5: Oracle places no limit on the number of columns in a GROUP BY clause or the number of sort specifications in an ORDER BY clause. However, the sum of the sizes of all the expressions in either a GROUP BY clause or an ORDER BY clause is limited to the size of an Oracle data block (specified by the initialization parameter DB_BLOCK_SIZE) minus some overhead.

Note 6: The Oracle limit for the number of cursors simultaneously opened is specified by the initialization parameter OPEN_CURSORS. The maximum value of this parameter depends on the memory available on your operating system and exceeds 100 in all cases.