No can do. Maybe he was confused and meant it the other way around:
insert into temp select * from emp;
>From: "Anderson, Brian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: this drove me crazy!!!
>Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2001 06:10:21 -0800
>
>select * from table where 1 = 1 /* and insert into table ... */;
>seems to work fine as long as it is formatted with the proper characters
>surrounding the statement.
>
>Why do you want to put an insert into a select? Is the desire to select
>the
>records that are being inserted or what?
>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Abdul Aleem [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 7:42 AM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > Subject: RE: this drove me crazy!!!
> >
> >
> > Yes! he can, as a matter of fact he can even write a complete
> > song in WHERE
> > clause, its just that it won't work :)
> > HTH!
> > -----Original Message-----
> > Sent: Sunday, February 11, 2001 1:25 AM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > Subject: Re: this drove me crazy!!!
> >
> > I think your customer is just testing your treshold for insanity
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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> > > Hi d.b.a people,
> > > how r u?
> > > I'm an Oracle DBA and my customer told me something that drove
> > > me crazy,he told me that he could write an 'insert statement' in the
> > > 'where' clause of a 'select' statement.
> > > Is this true? and if so,could you kindly tell me how?
> > > thanks alot
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