Re: Reserved word? or not?

Er isn't that SQL not PLSQL?

2008/9/24 Clarke, Andrew <andrew.clarke_at_logica.com>

> Hello Jack
>
> > We have an external table that reads from a datafile just fine in Oracle
> 9i.
> > However we upgraded our test environment to 10G and now it complaints
> about
> > the column name "LANGUAGE". It expects double quotes.
>
> Hmmm, puzzling. It works for me without a hitch...
>
> clarkea:~$ sqlplus apc
>
> SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.4.0 - Production on Wed Sep 24 09:01:36 2008
>
> Copyright (c) 1982, 2007, Oracle. All Rights Reserved.
>
> Enter password:
>
> Connected to:
> Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.4.0 - Production
> With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing
> options
>
> SQL> create table my_table (language varchar2(3))
> 2 /
>
> Table created.
>
> SQL> create table my_table_ext
> (
> language varchar2(10)
> )
> ORGANIZATION EXTERNAL
> (
> TYPE ORACLE_LOADER
> DEFAULT DIRECTORY clarkea
> ACCESS PARAMETERS
> (
> records delimited by newline
> fields terminated by ','
> missing field values are null
> )
> LOCATION ('languages.csv')
> )
> PARALLEL 4
> REJECT LIMIT 1000
> /
> 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16
> 17 18 19
> Table created.
>
> SQL> desc my_table
> Name Null? Type
> ----------------------------------------- --------
> ----------------------------
> LANGUAGE VARCHAR2(3)
>
> SQL> desc my_table_ext
> Name Null? Type
> ----------------------------------------- --------
> ----------------------------
> LANGUAGE VARCHAR2(10)
>
> SQL>
>
> Cheers, APC
>
> A P Clarke
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