You need to add the double quotes Do a select * from "tb", just the way you created the table -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Octavian Rasnita Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2010 2:19 PM To: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx 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 * -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l