It's the double-quotes If you create "tb" then you have to Select * from "tb" or Drop table "tb" If you had not used the quotes and did a Create table tb .... The select * from tb would work the same way as select * from TB In general....just don't use double-quotes in your object names. This happens a lot when you auto-convert from Access or ms-sql too HTH Sent wirelessly from my BlackBerry device on the Bell network. Envoyé sans fil par mon terminal mobile BlackBerry sur le réseau de Bell. -----Original Message----- From: "Octavian Rasnita" <orasnita@xxxxxxxxx> Sender: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Wed, 7 Jul 2010 21:19:06 To: <oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Reply-To: orasnita@xxxxxxxxx Subject: Can't access a table I just created Hi, Our sysadmin recently installed Oracle and he created the user "teddy" for me. I have created a table, but I can't select from it and I can't drop it either. Here is what I tried after logging with the username "teddy" in sqlplus: SQL> CREATE TABLE "tb" ( "id" number NOT NULL, "symbol" varchar2(20) NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY ("id") ); 3 4 5 Table created. SQL> SQL> drop table tb; drop table tb * ERROR at line 1: ORA-00942: table or view does not exist SQL> drop table TB; drop table TB * ERROR at line 1: ORA-00942: table or view does not exist SQL> drop table teddy.tb; drop table teddy.tb * ERROR at line 1: ORA-00942: table or view does not exist SQL> select count(*) from tb; select count(*) from tb * ERROR at line 1: ORA-00942: table or view does not exist SQL> select count(*) from teddy.tb; select count(*) from teddy.tb * ERROR at line 1: ORA-00942: table or view does not exist SQL> After so many tries, I think something's wrong. I have created 2 more other tables, but I can't access them either. Our sysadmin said that he can access that table if he connects to the database with my username using a GUI program, SQL Developer if I remember well, and that he was also able to add data to that table. Do you have any idea what could be wrong? (Oracle newbie here) Thanks. Octavian -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l ��i��0���zX���+��n��{�+i�^