What is pseudo column ?

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What is pseudo column ?..

Answer / senthilnathan

A pseudo column is an item of data which does not belong in
any particular table but which can be treated as if it did.
Any SELECT list of columns can include these pseudo
columns.
SYSDATE current date and time

ROWNUM sequence number assigned to retrieved rows

ROWID unique identifier for a row

UID number associated with a user

USER userid of current user

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What is pseudo column ?..

Answer / mail2sentha

pseudo column is a act as an database table column,but its
not a actual column in a table,we can fetch value from a
pseudo column.
ex.
user,usid,rownum,rowid,level,nextval,curval,sysdate

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What is pseudo column ?..

Answer / nazeer

pseudo column act as database table column, but not actually the exact column in the table....we can fetch values from the pseudo column....

The Columns are..
user,
userid,
rownum,
rowid,
level,
nextval,
curval,
sysdate.......

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What is pseudo column ?..

Answer / nagarjuna reddy

A pseudo column is a column but it is not physically existed
in the table.if we want to use these column by specifying
externally in select statement for projection or selection.
but we can't insert,delete and update pseudo columns.
some of pseudo columns are
1 ROWID
2 ROWNUM
3 LEVEL
4 CURRVAL
5 MEXTVAL
etc...

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What is pseudo column ?..

Answer / kiran

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What is pseudo column ?..

Answer / sudhir pradhan

pseudo column is false state. pseudo column behave like a table column, but it is actually not stored in table.

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