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Dual Table Name [message #104719] Mon, 10 January 2005 07:24 Go to next message
Michael
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Does anyone know why the DUAL table is so named?

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Re: Dual Table Name [message #104723 is a reply to message #104719] Tue, 11 January 2005 04:07 Go to previous message
Frank Naude
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DUAL is a silly name for a table with one row. According to legend this table originally contained two rows, from there the name DUAL.

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Frank

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