Re: Anyone run into this strange ORA-00904 error ??

From: Daniel Fink <Daniel.Fink_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 08:59:25 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D86CB.20031202085925@fatcity.com>

Babette,

Can you list the describe of the whole table?

Daniel FInk

babette.turnerunderwood@hrdc-drhc.gc.ca wrote:

We started having a weird problem that looks like some kind of data dictionary corruption.
My first choice is to run catalog / catproc. This did nothing to resolve the problem.
Why am I able to describe an object, but get ORA-00904 when I try to select from the table...
SQL> desc ispownre3.individual_names;
Name                                      Null?    Type
----------------------------------------- -------- ------------------
INTERNAL_IDENTIFIER                                NUMBER(12)
TITLE_CD                                           NUMBER(3)
. . .
SQL> select * from ispownre3.individual_names;
select * from ispownre3.individual_names
                         *
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00904: invalid column name

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