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RE: Index question

From: Mike Killough <mwkillough_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 11 Oct 2000 12:43:11 GMT
Message-Id: <10646.118963@fatcity.com>


It is:

  1 select * from v$reserved_words
  2* where keyword = 'LAST'
07:42:03 ORINTFD2:killoughm> /

KEYWORD                                                  LENGTH
---------------------------------------------------- ----------
LAST                                                          4

Mike

>From: Steven Monaghan <MonaghaS_at_mscdirect.com>
>Reply-To: ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com
>To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L <ORACLE-L_at_fatcity.com>
>Subject: RE: Index question
>Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 12:25:46 -0800
>
>Is LAST a reserved word? If it is, the only way oracle will not be
>confused
>is to wrap it in double quotes.
>
>Steve
>-------------------------------------
>Steven Monaghan
>Oracle DBA
>MSC Industrial Direct Co., Inc.
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>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Shaw, John B [
> > Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 3:20 PM
> > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> > Subject: Index question
> >
> >
> > I ran sql analyze and it came back with a recommended index
> > CREATE INDEX MAIN_ID
> > ON MAIN
> > (MAIN_ID,
> > "LAST",
> > FIRST)
> > LOGGING
> > INITRANS 2
> > MAXTRANS 255
> > TABLESPACE INDX
> > PCTFREE 0
> > STORAGE (
> > INITIAL 128K
> > NEXT 128K
> > PCTINCREASE 0
> > MINEXTENTS 1
> > MAXEXTENTS 1024);
> >
> > Why is the second column in quotes "LAST" - what does this do?
> >
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