RE: Using DUAL

Dan:
The discussion was recent, but I cannot find reference to it. I kinda thought Kirti was involved in the thread, and it had something to do with creating an x$dual table as a workround to hammering dual.

Sorry I can't remember any more . . .

Barb

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> From: Fink, Dan[SMTP:Dan.Fink_at_mdx.com]
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> Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 10:23 AM
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> Subject: Using DUAL
>
> The developers here have a fondness for using DUAL for simple operations
> (select count(*) from dual is executed 10000+ times per day). I recall a
> passing comment somewhere/sometime that there are performance issues with
> accessing DUAL. Of course, now that I need to provide some information to
> the developers, I can't recall the comment or find documentation.
>
> Any assistance is greatly appreciated.
>
> Daniel W. Fink
>
>

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