RE: How to prevent DUAL having more than 1 row

Has somebody imported dmp with system data and with rows=y ignore=y. This is one of the possible reason which happened to us in our early days with Oracle version 5(1988-89) when ignore=y/n option was not available. Regards
Rafiq

From: "Steve Adams" <steve.adams_at_ixora.com.au> Reply-To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Subject: RE: How to prevent DUAL having more than 1 row Date: Thu, 07 Sep 2000 07:15:42 -0800

Hi Babu,

I can't tell you how this happened, but I can suggest an unsupported way of making sure that it never happens again. The APT script "replace_dual.sql" at
http://www.ixora.com.au/scripts/cache.htm#replace_dual can replace the SYS.DUAL
table with a view onto X$DUAL. Once that's done, it will not be possible for extra rows to appear in DUAL again. From a performance point of view, there is a
slight increase in the parse overhead, but a slight reduction is the execution
cost of statements that refer to DUAL. Once again, this is unsupported - mentioned for information only.

@ Regards,
@ Steve Adams
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In one of the databases here, count(*) from dual gave me 3. I deleted two rows
based on the rowid's and now things are working fine. I was wondering how it could happen in the first place. No, no one logging in as SYS inserted this. Then how?

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