Posted by DA Morgan on 04/13/06 21:38

Serge Rielau wrote:
> DA Morgan wrote:
>> That's what I've done. I've never seen it. But running SELECT 1 may be
>> more of a test of how clueless the person doing the test is than of the
>> hardware and operating system. As the two events are not at all similar
>> in what they do.
> Rating high on the cluelessness on SELECT 1 myself, would you care to
> elaborate?

Depending on which version of Oracle dual may or may not be a table and
calls using dual may behave in very different ways.

The OP assumed something not in evidence.
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