Re: SQL challenge - an undocumented feature.

From: Jonathan Lewis <jonathan_at_jlcomp.demon.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 26 May 1999 20:03:24 +0100
Message-ID: <927745654.6549.0.nnrp-01.9e984b29@news.demon.co.uk>

I guess I should have made it clearer, but yes, the ....... was supposed to represent a missing item. In this case the expression:

userenv('commitscn')

which is just one of several userenv() options which don't appear in many documents.

Details should be on the web-site in the next couple of hours

Jonathan Lewis
Yet another Oracle-related web site: www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk

Doug Cowles wrote in message <374AEF95.BA64DC6B_at_bigfoot.com>...
>Looking forward to it appearing on the website. I don't get it. The
periods
>have to be an alias for something though because when I try it I just get
"missing
>epression". They're illegal as a variable name so there has to be some
funny
>business set up before this happens.
>
>Jonathan Lewis wrote:
>>
>> insert into test_table values (.......);
>> 1 row inserted
Received on Wed May 26 1999 - 14:03:24 CDT