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Bergman Precedence: bulk Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Put NAME into lower case and enclose it in double quotes. ----- Original Message ----- To: "Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L" Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 2:39 PM > Hi All, > > Thanks for the replies. > > I tried to select the column with --- select "NAME" from messages; > > I am getting the ORA-904 error. > > I would try to recreate the table, import the data and let you know. > > Rao > > -----Original Message----- > Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 2:05 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > Rao, > > Change your select to > > select "NAME" from messages; > > to fix this, you will either need to drop and recreate the table > (without > the quotes), or add the column NAME ( > > alter table messages add(name varchar2(n)) > update messages > set name = "NAME"; > alter table messages drop column "NAME" > > good luck! > > Tom Mercadante > Oracle Certified Professional > > > -----Original Message----- > Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 1:40 PM > To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L > > > I have a table - messages. I couldn't access one column in this table > when I do > > Select name from messages; > > I get an error message - ORA-00904: invalid column name > > All the other columns I could select from this table. When I checked > the table structure through OEM, I found this column has double quotes > around it i.e., "NAME". All other columns do not have double quotes > around their name. > > Question: > > How do I select this column from select statement? > > How do I correct this problem? > > Thanks for the help in advance. > > Rao > -- > Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net > -- > Author: INET: maheswara.rao@sungard.com > > Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com > San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message > to: ListGuru@fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in > the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L > (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). 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You may > also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing). > -- Please see the official ORACLE-L FAQ: http://www.orafaq.net -- Author: Chuck Hamilton INET: chuckh@softhome.net Fat City Network Services -- 858-538-5051 http://www.fatcity.com San Diego, California -- Mailing list and web hosting services --------------------------------------------------------------------- To REMOVE yourself from this mailing list, send an E-Mail message to: ListGuru@fatcity.com (note EXACT spelling of 'ListGuru') and in the message BODY, include a line containing: UNSUB ORACLE-L (or the name of mailing list you want to be removed from). You may also send the HELP command for other information (like subscribing).