Oracle-L: RE: Invalid column in table

From: Mercadante, Thomas F <NDATFM_at_labor.state.ny.us>
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 11:04:41 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.0055D42E.20030228110441@fatcity.com>

Rao,

Change your select to

select "NAME" from messages;

to fix this, you will either need to drop and recreate the table (without the quotes), or add the column NAME (

alter table messages add(name varchar2(n)) update messages
set name = "NAME";
alter table messages drop column "NAME"

good luck!

Tom Mercadante
Oracle Certified Professional

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Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 1:40 PM
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I have a table - messages. I couldn't access one column in this table when I do

Select name from messages;

I get an error message - ORA-00904: invalid column name

All the other columns I could select from this table. When I checked the table structure through OEM, I found this column has double quotes around it i.e., "NAME". All other columns do not have double quotes around their name.

Question:

How do I select this column from select statement?

How do I correct this problem?

Thanks for the help in advance.

Rao
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RE: Invalid column in table - how to access it?