On 11/8/05, Rudy Zung <Rudy.Zung@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > DUAL, when you really come down to it, is really just a table into which > Oracle defaults with just a single record. However, because it is just a > simple table, additional records can be inserted into it, as you have just > discovered. > That is version dependent. At least as far back as 8.1.7.4 <http://8.1.7.4>, there can be only one row in sys.dual. Try it. -- Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist