Question on Analze command....!

HI friends,
I analyzed one particular table , Then I quesried the following table dba_tab_col_statistics. I got following result .

TABLE_NAME LOW_VALUE HIGH_VALUE
TEST_MIG C102 C10A
TEST_MIG 53535353535353535353 53535353535353535353

could u pl explain me the column (low value and High value) in this table "dba_tab_col_statistics" and its values. Actual structure of the table which I analyzed is

Name Null? Type
------------------------------- -------- ----
X NUMBER(1)
Y VARCHAR2(10)
thanks in advance
bye
SIva

nobody answer my question in this forum, why dont u help
siva....!

no reply because u can get these information in documentation easily. but i think u don't want to try hard. any way -

this information comes from dba_tab_columns. it is for backward compatibality with orace7.

low_value - low value in that particular column
high_value - high value in that particular column

you have missed out the column name in your output. the information stored is in raw format . hence 'C102' . you can check this by -

select min(column_name) from table_name
and then

select rawtohex(yourvalue) from dual;

you will get C102 .