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3 Pseudocolumns
A pseudocolumn behaves like a table column, but is not actually stored in the table. You can select from pseudocolumns, but you cannot insert,
update, or delete their values. A pseudocolumn is also similar to a function without arguments (please refer to Chapter 5, "Functions"
(functions.htm#g1593736) . However, functions without arguments typically return the same value for every row in the result set, whereas pseudocolumns
typically return a different value for each row.

This chapter contains the following sections:

Hierarchical Query Pseudocolumns (pseudocolumns001.htm#i1009313)

Sequence Pseudocolumns (pseudocolumns002.htm#i1009336)

Version Query Pseudocolumns (pseudocolumns003.htm#i1009358)

COLUMN_VALUE Pseudocolumn (pseudocolumns004.htm#CIHIDEIG)

OBJECT_ID Pseudocolumn (pseudocolumns005.htm#i1011959)

OBJECT_VALUE Pseudocolumn (pseudocolumns006.htm#i1011963)

ORA_ROWSCN Pseudocolumn (pseudocolumns007.htm#BABFAFIC)

ROWID Pseudocolumn (pseudocolumns008.htm#i1006255)

ROWNUM Pseudocolumn (pseudocolumns009.htm#i1006297)

XMLDATA Pseudocolumn (pseudocolumns010.htm#i1006343)

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