title: Oracle number data type issue
body: <p>I'm trying to save a number of certain characters(let's say 4) in my oracle 11g db. My numbers has a leading zero 
  such 0100 0101 etc when i say the data. Why does oracle truncate the leading zero. Is it possible to avoid this. I really want the leading zero to get saved. Please help. </p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>