Re: Oracle ping

"David E. Wheeler" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.dbi.sybase.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Nov 5, 2012, at 8:57 AM, Greg Sabino Mullane <[email protected]> wrote:

> Ah, so Oracle still requires an actual table? Thought they might 
> have joined the rest of us by now in allowing things like 
> 'SELECT 2+2;' :)

No, it always requires a FROM clause, which is typically `FROM dual` for stuff like this.

Best,

David
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