Re: Invalid column name ??

Bricklen <bricklen_at_zyahoo.zcomz> wrote:

>thomas goodwin wrote:
>> I did a table export from Acess 2002 to Oracle9i.
>> When I "Select * from table1" I see all of the variables.
>> When I select individual variables ("select var1 from table1")
>> I sometimes get a value. For other variables I get
>> ORA 00904 Invalid column name.
>>
>> I am using the exact spelling the the variable name I see in my
>> Select * statement.
>>
>> Any ideas?
>>
>> thanks, tom g
>Could be caused by a case sensitivity problem. IIRC, Access uses double
>quotes around names and preserves the case. Try it that way to see if
>that could be the problem, eg
>
>select "var1" from "table1";
>
>Or maybe your column names are reserved words? I can't remember whether
>or not reserved words trigger that error or not, though.
>select * from v$reserved_words;

Just an note : Those are Columns not variables...hence the error message referring to Column Name. Received on Tue Oct 05 2004 - 10:34:21 CDT