RE: Index question

From: Gogala, Mladen <MGogala_at_oxhp.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 15:05:40 -0400
Message-Id: <10645.118897@fatcity.com>

The word "LAST" is a PL/SQL keyword, referring to the last element of PL/SQL table or varray.
In my opinion, using keywords as column names is EXTREMELY dangerous, even with the
surrounding quotes. That is the reason that the data dictionary tables have columns
like TABLESPACE_NAME and not just TABLESPACE.

-----Original Message-----
From: Shaw, John B [mailto:jbshaw_at_ingr.com] 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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