Re: help on "the" operator

It's the way of the future -
>From 8.1.7.2 (or maybe 3) PL/SQL at the server no longer does

    select sysdate from dual;
when your code reads:

    m_date_var := sysdate;

One down, six to go.
Anyway, why do we need DUAL when we have X$DUAL which does take up any space or latching ?

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-----Original Message-----
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com> Date: 07 March 2002 19:33

|Get rid of select from dual! Hah, the next thing you will suggest is
that we
|convert to the metric system!
|
|Marge: Now, I know you haven't liked some of my past suggestions,
like
|switching to the metric system --
|Abe: The metric system is the tool of the devil! My car gets forty
rods to
|the hogshead and that's the way I likes it.
|- The Simpsons episode "A Star is Burns"
|
|- Ethan

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