Re: How to reference table/view that has "slashes" in its name!

Alex wrote:

> I'm new to Oracle, so this question may sound silly. I have been given a
> list of Oracle tables (they may be views, I'm not sure) that are available
> to me. I can run simple SQL select statements against most of them in SQL
> Plus. But some of them have "slashes" in their names such as /XYZ/CUSTOMERS
> or /XYZ/ADDRESSES . When I try to use the name the way it's listed (with
> slashes) I get an error. I even tried replacing the slashes with dots, but
> that didn't work either. My question is how do I reference a table/view (in
> a SQL select statement for instance) that has slashes in its name. I'm not
> sure if this is relevant, but I think the Oracle database runs on a Unix
> box. Thanks in advance.
>
> Alex

If you can't get some sanity and rename the objects ... create synonyms.

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