Need to get rid of a table with a mixed-case tablename

From: Michael Stowe <Michael.Stowe_at_f573.n115.z1.fidonet.org>
Date: Sun, 12 Jun 94 08:13:38 -0500
Message-ID: <771412419_at_f573.n115.z1>


  • Quoting Jeff Kopmanis to All dated 06-12-94 ***
    > One of our people created a table with MS Access on our Oracle7
    > database
    > (via ODBC) that has a name that is mixed-case. Oracle doesn't seem to
    > want
    > to touch it and MS Access doesn't let us do that via ODBC (that we can
    > tell). How do you either override Access's foolishness or tell Oracle
    > to
    > NOT convert our SQL strings into upper case so that we may delete the
    > table?

Use double-quotes around the mixed case -- i.e.

drop table "MS_Access";

will work just fine. Received on Sun Jun 12 1994 - 15:13:38 CEST

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