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Dan,
Haven't heard the why yet but I think it may be just a poorly worded request. I suspect he wants the sequences created on another table and just wants to be able to select from dual. Maybe he never realized that the sequences were actually created on another table. Maybe he actually thought that the sequences were created on the DUAL table since he only ever used them by selecting from DUAL. Our developers run quite a wide gamut and I don't work very regularly with this one so it's hard to know where he's coming from. Still trying to get him on the phone.
Thanks for this info about performance on DUAL. I will pass the info on. Thanks to everyone for getting us all on the same page. I'm sure that once I talk this out with him, it'll be straightened out quickly.
Cherie
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Cherie,
My first response is 'WHY?'. Do they mean that they want to
create 2
Dan Fink
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I have a request from one of our developers to create two new sequences on the DUAL table.
This seems like a bad idea to me. I've never had such a request in the past. I asked for clarification on why this is needed and I didn't get a lot of details yet.
Is this something that is standard operating procedure? My understanding that interfacing with the DUAL table is usually inviting poor performance. Plus, I don't like to mess around with system tables, in general.
Under what circumstances would it be justified to create sequences on the DUAL table? Should I just flat-out refuse this request and if so, why?
Thanks,
Cherie Machler
Oracle DBA
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