RE: DUAL Was: Consulting Position Available-Oracle DBA/Developer/

Ditto for PostgreSQL. For portability you can create a dual table but you have to ensure that it only has one row. ;-) I finding that portability between PostgreSQL and Oracle is easier than most... same to_date, to_char functions, and stuff. Seems like that's part of Postgres' strategy.

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As well as in MySQL

>There is no need for such table in SQL Server.
>If you need, you do just:
>
>select 'whatever'
>
>without "from" clause.

Gints Plivna
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