DataDictionary Dual?

From: <pgaur_at_cdotd.ernet.in>
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 04:51:42 GMT
Message-ID: <76s5ot$9dt$2@nnrp1.dejanews.com>

Hi,

While reading the Oracle 7 Server Concepts, I found a word, called DUAL. This I found in context of DataDictionary Objects. The only info about DUAL I got is that The table named DUAL is a small table that Oracle and user written programs can reference to guarantee a known result. This table has one column and one row.

This does not really gives any insight to what DUAL is. Can somebody help me in this aspect??
Praveen Gaur

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