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Re: data in Oracle

From: Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bortel_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Aug 2006 19:15:29 +0200
Message-ID: <ebfpb9$o4i$1@news3.zwoll1.ov.home.nl>


mike7411_at_gmail.com schreef:
> Does all data in Oracle need to be in a table?
>
> If you just want a simple lone integer that counts, say, the number of
> users in your database, is there an easy way to create that?
>
> Thanks.
>

In SQL/SQL*Plus/PL/SQL: declare [var]
And it will only exist in memory, for the duration of the session at most, less if you destroy it.

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Frank van Bortel

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Received on Thu Aug 10 2006 - 12:15:29 CDT

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