Re: Reserved word? or not?

  • From: "Howard Latham" <howard.latham@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: andrew.clarke@xxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 24 Sep 2008 09:42:19 +0100

Er isn't that SQL not PLSQL?

2008/9/24 Clarke, Andrew <andrew.clarke@xxxxxxxxxx>

>  Hello Jack
>
> >  We have an external table that reads from a datafile just fine in Oracle
> 9i.
> >  However we upgraded our test environment to 10G and now it complaints
> about
> >  the column name "LANGUAGE". It expects double quotes.
>
> Hmmm, puzzling.  It works for me without a hitch...
>
> clarkea:~$ sqlplus apc
>
> SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.4.0 - Production on Wed Sep 24 09:01:36 2008
>
> Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle.  All Rights Reserved.
>
> Enter password:
>
> Connected to:
> Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.4.0 - Production
> With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing
> options
>
> SQL> create table my_table (language varchar2(3))
>   2  /
>
> Table created.
>
> SQL> create table my_table_ext
>  (
>  language varchar2(10)
> )
>  ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL
>  (
>    TYPE ORACLE_LOADER
>    DEFAULT DIRECTORY clarkea
>    ACCESS PARAMETERS
>    (
>             records delimited by newline
>             fields terminated by ','
>             missing field values are null
>    )
>    LOCATION ('languages.csv')
>  )
>  PARALLEL 4
>  REJECT LIMIT 1000
> /
>   2    3    4    5    6    7    8    9   10   11   12   13   14   15   16
> 17   18   19
> Table created.
>
> SQL> desc my_table
>  Name                                      Null?    Type
>  ----------------------------------------- --------
> ----------------------------
>  LANGUAGE                                           VARCHAR2(3)
>
> SQL> desc my_table_ext
>  Name                                      Null?    Type
>  ----------------------------------------- --------
> ----------------------------
>  LANGUAGE                                           VARCHAR2(10)
>
> SQL>
>
> Cheers, APC
>
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Howard A. Latham

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