select * from table where 1 = 1 /* and insert into table ... */;
seems to work fine as long as it is formatted with the proper characters
surrounding the statement.
Why do you want to put an insert into a select? Is the desire to select the
records that are being inserted or what?
****************************************
Brian L. Anderson
Flunky/SA/DBA
Darton College
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Abdul Aleem [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 7:42 AM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
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>
> Yes! he can, as a matter of fact he can even write a complete
> song in WHERE
> clause, its just that it won't work :)
> HTH!
> -----Original Message-----
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> I think your customer is just testing your treshold for insanity
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > Hi d.b.a people,
> > how r u?
> > I'm an Oracle DBA and my customer told me something that drove
> > me crazy,he told me that he could write an 'insert statement' in the
> > 'where' clause of a 'select' statement.
> > Is this true? and if so,could you kindly tell me how?
> > thanks alot
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