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Subject: Re: Dropping table space where name is lower case
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Put double quotes around it... drop tablespace "spatial"


"Browett, Darren" wrote:
> 
> I am unable to drop a tablespace that I created.
> 
> I created the tablespace with a lower case name, when I do a select * from
> dba_tablespaces the name
> is lowercase as opposed to uppercase.
> 
> When I "drop tablespace spatial"  oracle gives the following error message :
> 
> ORA-00959: tablespace 'SPATIAL' does not exist
> 
> This is oracle 8.1.7.2.?
> 
> Thanks
> 
> Darren
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