mike7411_at_gmail.com wrote:
> 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.
Syntactically yes but realistically no. External tables are really just
files sitting in the file system. Static data can potentially be stored
in package variables. But be careful what you define as "static."
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Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
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Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
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Received on Thu Aug 10 2006 - 13:30:00 CDT
