From oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Mon Mar 15 10:25:40 2004 Return-Path: Received: from air189.startdedicated.com (root@localhost) by orafaq.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i2FGPeP03543 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 10:25:40 -0600 X-ClientAddr: 206.53.239.180 Received: from turing.freelists.org (freelists-180.iquest.net [206.53.239.180]) by air189.startdedicated.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id i2FGPao03521 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 10:25:36 -0600 Received: from turing (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id E94E33908EA; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 11:24:24 -0500 (EST) Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list oracle-l); Mon, 15 Mar 2004 11:23:15 -0500 (EST) X-Original-To: oracle-l@freelists.org Delivered-To: oracle-l@freelists.org Received: from agminet04.oracle.com (agminet04.oracle.com [141.146.126.231]) by turing.freelists.org (Avenir Technologies Mail Multiplex) with ESMTP id 816F3390977 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 11:23:14 -0500 (EST) Received: from rgmgw6.us.oracle.com (rgmgw6.us.oracle.com [138.1.191.15]) by agminet04.oracle.com (Switch-3.1.2/Switch-3.1.0) with ESMTP id i2FGStfB003698 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 08:28:55 -0800 Received: from rgmgw6.us.oracle.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rgmgw6.us.oracle.com (Switch-2.1.5/Switch-2.1.0) with ESMTP id i2FGSC226236 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 09:28:23 -0700 (MST) Received: from au.oracle.com (dhcp-amer-vpn-gw2-east-141-144-83-223.vpn.oracle.com [141.144.83.223]) by rgmgw6.us.oracle.com (Switch-2.1.5/Switch-2.1.0) with ESMTP id i2FGRv225609 for ; Mon, 15 Mar 2004 09:28:08 -0700 (MST) Message-Id: <200403151628.i2FGRv225609@rgmgw6.us.oracle.com> From: Pete Sharman To: oracle-l@freelists.org Subject: RE: Use of the quote / apostrophe in text fields Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 03:27:38 +1100 X-Sent-Folder-Path: Sent Items X-Mailer: Oracle Connector for Outlook 9.0.4 51121 (10.0.4712) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis X-archive-position: 834 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org Errors-To: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org X-original-sender: peter.sharman@oracle.com Precedence: normal Reply-To: oracle-l@freelists.org X-list: oracle-l RE: 10g ORA-12709: Error while loading create database character set

Yep, but only if you’re on 10g.  You can change the quote delimiter to whatever string you want.

 

 

Pete

 

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From: oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@freelists.org] On Behalf Of Robson, Peter
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Subject: Use of the quote / apostrophe in text fields

 

Many of our data fields require use of a quote embedded within the text field, most particularly for proper names (eg 'A'MHOINE PSAMMITE', just to give you a taste of Scottish geological terminology!)

 

This can prove troublesome where autogenerated update scripts are used, in which the value of the field is retrieved back into a quote-delimited string.

 

Is anyone aware of a means of redefining the field delimiter from a quote to some other arbitrary character in SQL?

 

thanks,

 

peter

edinburgh

 



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