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

From: Denny Koovakattu <groups_at_koovakattu.com>
Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2003 10:09:32 -0800
Message-ID: <F001.005D86D9.20031202100932@fatcity.com>

  It this a view ?

-- 
Denny Koovakattu 


Quoting Tanel Poder <tanel.poder.003_at_mail.ee>:


> Anyone run into this strange ORA-00904 error ??What happens if you select 1
> or 'X' from the table?
>
> Tanel.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: babette.turnerunderwood_at_hrdc-drhc.gc.ca
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 6:34 PM
> Subject: Anyone run into this strange ORA-00904 error ??
>
>
> 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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