Re: bizzare

Hi!

Yep, I've seen it a lot during trainings, that students are trying to use arrow characters in sqlplus on unix terminal. And that leaves non-printable chars into sql command. Copy&paste clears them out.

Tanel.
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> AK
> The only thing that comes to mind is maybe a non-printing character
gets
> in there and the process of cutting and pasting somehow cleans that
> character out. My approach would be to put your SQL in a .SQL file and run
> it as a script. See if it happens then. If it does, you can inspect the
file
> more closely, if it doesn't, you'll have an important clue.
>
>
>
> Dennis Williams
> DBA, 80%OCP, 100% DBA
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>
> This is happening 3rd time with me so I have to figure out what's wrong .
> When I issue the given sql first time i get an error as shown . After
that
> I copy and paste it again and it works second time . Any clue what should
be
> the reason ? btw, it happens with any sql ..not just this one . Its on
hp-ux
> 9000 server with 8.1.7.4 oracle. This doesn't if sql is issued from
> someother box .
>
>
> SQL>
> SQL>
> SQL> select * from v$instance;
> select * from v$instance
> *
> ERROR at line 1:
> ORA-00923: FROM keyword not found where expected
>
>
> SQL> select * from v$instance;
>
> INSTANCE_NUMBER INSTANCE_NAME
> --------------- ----------------
> HOST_NAME
>
>
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