I am getting Error! java.sql.SQLException:General error

Question

hi every body,
I struck with this error , can any one suggest in solving this.
I had a table in oracledatabase ,i have successfully created a table and inserted clob column with an attachment like xxx.txt.
table format----> id and text columns
Now my question is to retrieve that data and store it in local disk i am getting this error
import java.io.*;
import java.sql.*;
//import java.sql.SQLException;
public class Cread {
public static void main(String[] args) throws ClassNotFoundException,IOException,SQLException {
try {
Class.forName("sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcDriver");
Connection cn=DriverManager.getConnection("jdbc:odbc:sivadsn","scott","tiger");
Statement s = cn.createStatement();
ResultSet rs=s.executeQuery("Select text from ram where id=10");
if(rs.next()){
FileOutputStream file=new FileOutputStream("c:/store.txt");
InputStream fin=rs.getBinaryStream(1);
int c;
while((c=fin.read())!=-1){
file.write(c);
fin.close();
s.close();
rs.close();
catch(IOException e){
e.printStackTrace();
System.out.println("Err:"+e);
I am getting the error as
java.sql.SQLException: General error
at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbc.createSQLException(Unknown Source)
at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbc.standardError(Unknown Source)
at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbc.SQLExecDirect(Unknown Source)
at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcStatement.execute(Unknown Source)
at sun.jdbc.odbc.JdbcOdbcStatement.executeQuery(Unknown Source)Error! java.sql.SQLException: General error
at attach.Clobread.main(Clobread.java:30)

Answer 1

That usually means something is wrong with the syntax of your sql.
As a guess 'text' is probably a keyword and shouldn't be used as a field name. It is possible that the same is true for 'id'