Re: Vs: Reserved word? or not?

From: Jack van Zanen <jack_at_vanzanen.com>
Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 15:21:20 +1000
Message-ID: <77a615a70809232221m539f98d9yc9c5a2890638e7c0@mail.gmail.com>


Ah I see, is there an oracle view for these as well?

Brgds

Jack

2008/9/24 Teijo Lallukka <teijo.lallukka_at_edita.fi>

> Hi!
>
> Language is PL/SQL keyword so it should not be used as columns name or
> table name etc.
>
>
> http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B19306_01/appdev.102/b14261/reservewords.htm#LNPLS019
>
> -Teijo
>
> >>> "Jack van Zanen" <jack_at_vanzanen.com> 24.9.2008 7:17:59 >>>
> Hi All
>
> We have an external table that reads from a datafile just fine in Oracle
> 9i.
> However we upgraded our test environment to 10G and now it complaints about
> the column name "LANGUAGE". It expects double quotes.
>
> I had a look in the v$reserved_words view and do not see this word as
> reserved.
> Changing the column name to language1(or something) fixes the problem, but
> I am wondering why we need to do this.
>
>
> Brgds
>
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