Single quotes did it :(.
Thks all.
You've mixed the use of double and single quotes by the look of it.
On 9/22/06, Johan Muller <johan.muller@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > What is really causing the insert to fail? My object name is 4 characters > long; max lenght is 30 characters. Oracle 10.2 on RHE rel 4. > SQL> insert into test <snip> "Backup failed : Please check /u02/backups/backups_26810.err for errors" </snip> is probably being treated as an identifier.
cheers
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