Turkbear wrote:
> 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.
>
>
I'm assuming that by variables, he meant column names, but I maybe I
assumed incorrectly.
Received on Tue Oct 05 2004 - 10:52:49 CDT
