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Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 04:32:39 +1100
Subject: Re: DB API question - where is a stored procedure's return value?
From: Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
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On Fri, Mar 14, 2014 at 4:22 AM,  <random832@fastmail.us> wrote:
> DUAL is an Oracle thing. It used to have two rows, in order to be used
> to duplicate results by doing a cartesian join to it. At some point,
> that was removed, but the name stuck.
>
> Most other servers allow SELECT without FROM.

Yeah, I usually use PostgreSQL which does. I don't remember what DB2
has. MySQL I think requires either DUAL or an actual real table.

ChrisA