What is magic table?

Answer Posted / vaibhavi_dixit

Dual table is know as magic table, which has only one
columns with name as "DUMMY" and a row with value X.
One can describe DUAL with desc dual; command.
It is mainly used for testing some math expressions or some
character functions like
select (2+2) from dual;
It is automatically created,assigned to SYS but accessible
to all users.

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