It's commonly used for 'scrollable' cursors with ADO (I think also ADO.Netbut can't recall). It may be an artifact of the MS Oracle ODBC driver from memory. see http://www.sqlteam.com/item.asp?ItemID=11842 for a sqlserver based discussion of the options available. On 3/16/07, Robert Freeman <robertgfreeman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I have an application that everyone swears no changes have occured on, that is adding a ROWID clause to the end of the select clause of each SQL statement. The application code does not appear to be doing this. It runs through ODBC. The database does not appear to be doing this. Has anyone seen anything like this before? Robert Robert G. Freeman Author: Portable DBA: Oracle (Oracle Press) Oracle Database 10g New Features (Oracle Press) Oracle9i RMAN Backup and Recovery (Oracle Press) Oracle9i New Features (Oracle Press) Oracle Replication (Rampant Tech Press) Mastering Oracle8i (Sybex) Oracle8 to 8i Upgrade Exam Cram (Coriolis <RIP>) Oracle 7.3 to 8 Upgrade Exam Cram (Coriolis <RIP>) -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l
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