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I have a SELECT query that fetches some data from table but there is one line I can't understand at all . Can anyone tell me what does SUMMARY DESCRIPTION doing in my query cause I have no idea . Please Help .

     SELECT alarms.ALARMID,
      IDENTIFIER EVENT_ID,
      SERIAL ALARMID,
      NODE HOSTNAME,
      '',
      monitoredbys.OFP,
      monitored_bys.MONITORED_BY,
      productareas.PRODUCT_AREA PLATFORM,
      product_areas.PRODUCT_AREA,
      PRODUCT,
      SUMMARY DESCRIPTION


      FROM blah blah tables;

Can anyone tell me what does SUMMARY performs here cause I can't find any document regarding this function in ORACLE . Please Help .

Maximious
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It selects the column salary from one of the tables and gives it the column alias description. Alternatively it could be written as 

summary AS description