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Home -> Community -> Mailing Lists -> Oracle-L -> RE: Index question
Is LAST a reserved word? If it is, the only way oracle will not be confused
is to wrap it in double quotes.
Steve
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Shaw, John B [
> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 3:20 PM
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Index question
>
>
> I ran sql analyze and it came back with a recommended index
> CREATE INDEX MAIN_ID
> ON MAIN
> (MAIN_ID,
> "LAST",
> FIRST)
> LOGGING
> INITRANS 2
> MAXTRANS 255
> TABLESPACE INDX
> PCTFREE 0
> STORAGE (
> INITIAL 128K
> NEXT 128K
> PCTINCREASE 0
> MINEXTENTS 1
> MAXEXTENTS 1024);
>
> Why is the second column in quotes "LAST" - what does this do?
>
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