Oracle-L: RE: ora-904 invalid column name

From: Fink, Dan <Dan.Fink_at_mdx.com>
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2002 12:23:40 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.004E1395.20021004122340@fatcity.com>

Rick,

What is the underlying view statement? I have found that there is an object resolution difference between selecting individual columns and *. I'm exploring exactly what happens, but the same issue can be found in v$sort_usage, where there is a column USER (which is both a reserved word and a function).

Dan Fink

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Hi All,

Oracle 8.1.6, WinNT

I have view TIMEVIEW. I can do select * from timeview with no errors. If I select a individual column I get 904 error. I am doing everything from the schema owner. Any hints

SQLWKS> desc timeview

Column Name                    Null?    Type
------------------------------ -------- ----
NAS_IP_ADDRESS                 NOT NULL VARCHAR2(255)
CALLED_STATION_ID                       VARCHAR2(255)
CALLING_STATION_ID                      VARCHAR2(255)
ACCT_INPUT_OCTETS                       NUMBER(38)
ACCT_OUTPUT_OCTETS                      NUMBER(38)
USER_NAME                               VARCHAR2(255)
ST                                      NUMBER
MT                                      VARCHAR2(3)

SQLWKS> select mt from timeview;
select mt from timeview

*
ORA-00904: invalid column name

Thanks
Rick

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