Brian Peasland wrote:
> DA Morgan wrote:
>> 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."
>
> If the data is in an external table, then it really isn't *in* Oracle is
> it? ;)
>
> Cheers!
> Brian
Can we talk about BFILEs now too? ;-)
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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 - 16:18:42 CDT
