In Oracle, is starting the SQL Query's WHERE clause with 1=1 useful?

Question

I\'m working with a client that starts almost all of their WHERE clauses in Oracle with 1=1. Forgive my ignorance, but isn\'t this a no-op? Are there any negati

Answer 1

They may have built the query from substrings.

It may be a way to build it with just ANDs, depending on the business rule match, so you don't really have to care which is your first condition.

Wouldn't do it that way myself.