Re: Select *, rowid ???

In article <4b6812$n53_at_inet-nntp-gw-1.us.oracle.com>, Martin Paul <mpaul_at_de.oracle.com> wrote:

> yogen_at_astro.ocis.temple.edu (Yogen Sanghani) wrote:
> >Is there any way of selecting all the columns of a table plus the rowid
> >without explicitly specifying the column names? Most of my processing
> >happen in PL/SQL stored procedure, and I would like to keep the procedure
> >loosely coupled with the table structure by not having to specify all
> >the column names. But my processing would also benefit from using
> >rowids as it is a two pass process. I tried using "Select *, rowid...."
> >and "Select rowid, * ....", but neither worked. Any ideas?
> >
> >Oracle Server version 7.2.2...
> >PL/SQL Version 2.2
> >
> >Any suggestions greatly appreciated.
> >
> >-----
> >Yogen.
>
> You can try something like this:
> (for example using the table emp)
>
> select b.rowid RID,a.* from emp a,emp b
> where a.rowid=b.rowid

Much better would be:

select rowid, emp.* from emp;

graeme

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