Re: Can FROM be followed by a SELECT statement instead a table name?

From: <stevedhoward_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 20 Apr 2009 10:31:30 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <d4b04e75-c494-46dd-a154-b4e99c3c5c18_at_r3g2000vbp.googlegroups.com>

On Apr 20, 12:17 pm, Robert Klemme <shortcut..._at_googlemail.com> wrote:
> On 17.04.2009 14:33, stevedhow..._at_gmail.com wrote:
>
> > On Apr 16, 7:52 am, Phper <hi.steven..._at_gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Can FROM be followed by a SELECT statement instead a table name?
>
> > No.  Never.  It is completely out of the realm of possibility of
> > Oracle (or any RDBMS), even if their developers worked on it until the
> > next millenia.
>
> Was that sarcasm or did you want to point out that there must be a
> bracket between "FROM" and "SELECT"?
>
>         robert

My (evidently poor) attempt at the former :) Received on Mon Apr 20 2009 - 12:31:30 CDT