On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 5:30 AM, Bill Ferguson <wbfergus@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Hi Norman, > > Thanks for the reply. On my system, for whatever reason, I don't have > to escape the underscore. The table names retrieved are the ones I > want, not the superflous lookup tables or other system generated > tables. I tried escaping the underscore per your suggestion, and I got > "no rows returned", so maybe it's a Windows thing? > > No, it's a SQL thing: http://www.orafaq.com/wiki/SQL_FAQ#How_does_one_escape_special_characters_when_writing_SQL_queries.3F http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B12037_01/java.101/b10979/ref.htm#i1005208 <http://download-west.oracle.com/docs/cd/B12037_01/java.101/b10979/ref.htm#i1005208> Jared Still Certifiable Oracle DBA and Part Time Perl Evangelist Oracle Blog: http://jkstill.blogspot.com Home Page: http://jaredstill.com