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"Alex" <sh2222_at_yahoo.com> 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.
SQL> create table "ABC/def" ( x char(1) );
Table created.
SQL> select * from "ABC/def";
no rows selected
-- BillyReceived on Wed Aug 13 2003 - 00:27:31 CDT
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