DUAL is a special table found in some of the databases e.g Oracle, Informix and DB2 etc. MySQL, Microsoft SQL (MS SQL) does not have this table moreover MySQL allows DUAL to be specified as a table in queries that do not need data from any tables.In oracle, this DUAL table is having one row and one column by default. The owner of DUAL is sys, can be accessed by all user. The table has a single VARCHAR2(1) column called DUMMY that has a value of ‘X’.This table was created by Charles Weiss of Oracle corporation to provide a table for joining in internal views. We mostly uses this to find the calculations or checking system variables etc. Examples 1. The following query displays the string value from the DUAL table SELECT ‘Test String’ FROM DUAL; Output: Test String ———– Test String 2. The following query displays the numeric value… Read more“Using DUAL table in Oracle”