Re: I've now, officially, seen it all...

From: hpuxrac <johnbhurley_at_sbcglobal.net>
Date: 12 Jan 2007 05:08:19 -0800
Message-ID: <1168607299.321571.131450@v45g2000cwv.googlegroups.com>

Andreas Sheriff wrote:
> Of course, the subject of this post is completely fictitious, so don't flame
> me. :-D
>
> Does anyone have any idea why someone in their right mind would need a SQL
> statement such as the following:
>
> SELECT NULL FROM DUAL FOR UPDATE NOWAIT
>
> Does this make sense? Did I actually loose it?

Looks like you found some code that the oracle development staff put into the database.

Where did you find this from exactly?

It doesn't surprise me that a developer might choose to put something like this in, nothing much surprises me there. What is surprising was that it was allowed to go into production like that! Received on Fri Jan 12 2007 - 07:08:19 CST