&nbsp;Hi,<br>
<br>
The reason for selecting from dual was to set up a number of
environmental definitions required by the software i am using (MDL-
chemical structure search). I tried setting up a dual class, however
this did not work as it aliased the table name to me, which oracle did
not like. The solution was to use raw sql.<br>
<br>
Mark<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 16/07/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Jess Robinson</b> &lt;<a href="mailto:castaway@desert-island.demon.co.uk" target="_blank" onclick="return top.js.OpenExtLink(window,event,this)">
castaway@desert-island.demon.co.uk</a>&gt; wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<br><br>On Tue, 11 Jul 2006, mark davies wrote:<br><br>&gt; Hi,<br>&gt;<br>&gt; I am new to dbix::class. I am using an oracle database and need to select<br>&gt; from dual in order to initialise an environment. What is the correct way to
<br>&gt; select from dual using dbix::class?<br>&gt;<br>&gt; Mark<br><br>There isn't a built-in way to do that, currently, you could make a dummy<br>&quot;dual&quot; class..<br><br>What did you need it for?<br><br>Jess<br>

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