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IT MAYBE the HISTORY of DUAL
hi tom,
After reading about dual i came to know that So many peoples are not aware about
history of dual:
so here it is:: BY Chuck Weiss,Oracle)
I created the DUAL table as an underlying object in the Oracle Data
Dictionary. It was never meant to be seen itself, but instead used inside a view
that was expected to be queried. The idea was that you could do a JOIN to the
DUAL table and create two rows in the result for every one row in your table.
Then, by using GROUP BY, the resulting join could be summarized to show the
amount of storage for the DATA extent and for the INDEX extent(s). The name,
DUAL, seemed apt for the process of creating a pair of rows from just one.
Chuck Weiss, Oracle. |
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