Re: some thing strange with user_tables vs real table

Welcome to the joy of Access. Access will import into Oracle non sql-compliant objects such as this. If you query

     select count(*) from "tmp_april";
you should get a result. To fix this, create your objects in Oracle first. Then attach the Oracle objects to your Access database. Use a copy append to select all the records from the Access table into the Oracle table.

Then go slap your developers and tell them NEVER EXPORT ACCESS OBJECTS DIRECTLY TO ORACLE!!!! Rodd Holman

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On 7/19/01, 3:32:25 PM, "Ari," Rama <Rama.Ari_at_genexservices.com> wrote regarding some thing strange with user_tables vs real table:

> One of our programmer had imported a table from ACESS database.

> When I query user_tables I get following result.
> SQL> select table_name from user_tables where table_name= 'TMP_APRIL'

> no rows selected

> SQL> select table_name from user_tables where table_name= 'tmp_april'

> TABLE_NAME
> ------------------------------
> tmp_april

> When I query tmp_april table I get following result.
> SQL> select count(*) from tmp_april;
> select count(*) from tmp_april
> *
> ERROR at line 1:
> ORA-00942: table or view does not exist

> SQL> select count(*) from TMP_APRIL;
> select count(*) from tmp_april
> *
> ERROR at line 1:
> ORA-00942: table or view does not exist

> For some reason, table name has been stored as tmp_april (lower case).
When
> we create table it supposed to store table name with upper case.

> Did any one had similar kind of problem?

> Thanks in Advance,

> Rama Ari
> Database Administrator
> rama.ari_at_genexservices.com
> 610.964.5128

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