ORA-00904: invalid identifier

have a problem with this select statement:
select NLS_CHARACTERSET, NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET, NLS_TERRITORY, NLS_LANGUAGE, NLS_SORT from nls_database_parameters ORDER BY PARAMETER
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00942: table or view does not exist
but if I do this :
select * from nls_database_parameters ORDER BY PARAMETER
I get all results right.
How can I get the result by columns that i need?
Thanks a lot,
mj

The columns you are attempting to select are not columns but values for parameter.
SQL> describe nls_database_parameters
Name                                      Null?    Type
PARAMETER                                 NOT NULL VARCHAR2(30)
VALUE                                              VARCHAR2(40)
SQL>
SQL> l
1 select *
2 from nls_database_parameters
3 where parameter in ('NLS_CHARACTERSET', 'NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET',
4                      'NLS_TERRITORY', 'NLS_LANGUAGE', 'NLS_SORT')
5* order by parameter
SQL> /
PARAMETER                      VALUE
NLS_CHARACTERSET               WE8ISO8859P1
NLS_LANGUAGE                   AMERICAN
NLS_NCHAR_CHARACTERSET         AL16UTF16
NLS_SORT                       BINARY
NLS_TERRITORY                  AMERICA
SQL>

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hr@ORA10G>
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STR
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        115 Alexander            Khoo                      AKHOO                     515.127.4562         18-MAY-95 PU_CLERK         3100                       114            30
        121 Adam                 Fripp                     AFRIPP                    650.123.2234         10-APR-97 ST_MAN           8200                       100            50
        147 Alberto              Errazuriz                 AERRAZUR                  011.44.1344.429278   10-MAR-97 SA_MAN          12000             .3        100            80
        158 Allan                McEwen                    AMCEWEN                   011.44.1345.829268   01-AUG-96 SA_REP           9000            .35        146            80
        167 Amit                 Banda                     ABANDA                    011.44.1346.729268   21-APR-00 SA_REP           6200             .1        147            80
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        187 Anthony              Cabrio                    ACABRIO                   650.509.4876         07-FEB-99 SH_CLERK         3000                       121            50
        196 Alana                Walsh                     AWALSH                    650.507.9811         24-APR-98 SH_CLERK         3100                       124            50
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hr@ORA10G>
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from
crrm_crmaster a
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Message was edited by:
slavanaway

Iceman,
Thanks for the reply I will try your suggestion.
I will try and explain why I think two subqueries (an in-line query with a subquery?) are required. I will use the creation of the column RTP #1 as the example as the RTP #2 column is only different in the rownum selected.
Looking only at the lines that fail, here is my analysis. (If I rem out the two case lines the query runs, I just don't get two columns of data I need.) I will only examine the first case as the second is changed to extract the second approval via the rownum = 2 criteria. The first statement checks there is at least one RTP approval stored for the request and then gets the user who approved the request if the test is true.
case when
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then
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(select appr_user from (select * from crrm_cr_approvals where appr_cr_no=a.cr_mas_cr_no and appr_type = 'RTP') where rownum = 1)
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"RTP #1",
I moved the parenthesis to the correct location. There can be multiple approvals for a given parent record. Some parent records need one, some need two approvals. If I replace
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with
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The subquery builds a set of approvals for a specific "cr_no" and appr_type of "RTP". the outer query then looks at the rownum of the second query
Here is where I got the rownum information from;
http://www.oracle.com/technology/oramag/oracle/06-sep/o56asktom.html
So here is what I think is happening;
1. Main query From and Where are processed. This should provide the "set" for the query
2.The from subqueries for RTP #1 and RTP #2 should be able to access the a.cr_mas_cr_no field and build a set from the approvals table.
3.The RTP #1/2 subquery (inline maybe a better description?) would then get the correct row from the from subquery.
The error "invalid identifier" refers to the a.cr_mas_cr_no field. I assume it means it can not resolve the table alias inside the subquery.
So maybe your grouping would help, I will try.
Sam

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Here are the steps to reproduce this. My DB version is 9i R2.
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update xmlsun2 y
set value(y) = updatexml(value(y),'/employees/employee/@id','37')
where existsnode(value(y),'/employees/employee[FirstName = "Tom"]') = 1;
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Thanks,
Sundar

I've filed bug 5560960 for this behavoir, which is still not what you are describing.. Do you have SYNONYMS defined somewhere in your example ?
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SQL*Plus: Release 9.2.0.6.0 - Production on Fri Sep 22 11:59:46 2006
Copyright (c) 1982, 2002, Oracle Corporation. All rights reserved.
Connected to:
Oracle9i Enterprise Edition Release 9.2.0.6.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Oracle Data Mining options
JServer Release 9.2.0.6.0 - Production
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2 /
Table dropped.
SQL> create table xmlsun1 of xmltype
2 /
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SQL> drop table xmlsun2
2 /
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2 /
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2 /
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2 /
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3 where existsnode(value(x),'/employees/employee[FirstName = "Tom"]') = 1
4 /
1 row updated.
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2 set value(x) = updatexml(value(x),'/employees/employee/@id','37')
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4 /
where existsnode(value(x),'/employees/employee[FirstName = "Tom"]') = 1
ERROR at line 3:
ORA-00904: "X": invalid identifier
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2 set value(y) = updatexml(value(y),'/employees/employee/@id','37')
3 where existsnode(value(y),'/employees/employee[FirstName = "Tom"]') = 1
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ERROR at line 3:
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Dynamic SQL Error -ORA-00904: invalid identifier

Hello!
I'm really hoping I can get some fast help on this. In the interest of honesty, this is for a university oracle programming assignment. I've searched everywhere I can for the answer and haven't had any luck.
Anyway, the problem in a nutshell. I have to write a package to write a text file. The formatting information for the file is held in a table, which has columns to define the various characteristics like justification, padding character and field value.
RECORDTYPE FIELDNAME FIELDVALUE FIELDSIZE FIELDORDER PADDINGCHAR JUSTIFICATION DATASOURCE
7 CreditTotal v_credit 10 5 '0' LPAD PROGRAM
7 RecordType '7' 1 1 ' ' RPAD HARDCODE
I can build the whole file except this footer. the FieldValue "v_credit" references a variable that has the calculated total of the credit amounts for the file. There are also "v_debit", and "(v_credit-v_debt)" entries.
My question seems simple... How can I use this VARCHAR2 value from the table, and have it reference the variable within a Dynamic SQL string? If I use the textvalue of the column in the SQL string it gives me the invalid identifier error when it hits the EXECUTE IMMEDIATE statement. There is another row for the header which has "to_char(sysdate,'DDMMYYYY')" in it, and that runs fine. I'm assuming because they are native SQL statements and variables.
I have tried encapsulating the v_credit in "s, and using dynamica bind variables but had the same problem passing the names to the USING clause.
The SQL string created by the procedure is: SELECT LPAD(v_credit,10,'0' ) FROM dual
The full error is:
ORA-00904: "V_CREDIT": invalid identifier
ORA-06512: at "BWOOD.PKG_BRIAN", line 108
ORA-06512: at line 2
Line 108 is the EXECUTE IMMEDIATE statement
I would really appreciate someones help! I'm happy to post the procedure I've written, with the caveat that it's sloppy student work and needs cleaning up of all the experimental commented attempts:)
Edited by: user5426606 on 20-May-2009 03:34 - Added a few more facts.

Thank you for the fast replies. I'll post a short chunk of code to demonstrate.
The actual procedure is quite a bit longer, but this should give you the idea.
PROCEDURE build_dbfile (p_settlement_date IN DATE, p_settlement_key IN VARCHAR2, p_type IN VARCHAR2) AS
v_sqlString    VARCHAR2(4000) := 'SELECT ';
v_rectype     NUMBER := 7;
v_line           LONG;
v_debit        NUMBER := 0;
v_credit       NUMBER := 0;
v_nrRecords    NUMBER := 0;
CURSOR c_settlement IS... -- to select records for data rows
-- cursor to select the rows with the file formatting and data info
CURSOR c_header IS   SELECT   NVL(fieldvalue,fieldname) db_field, <---- selects the data column
                                               fieldsize,
                                               NVL(paddingchar, ''' ''') paddingchar,
                                               NVL(justification,'LPAD') justification,
                                              datasource
                                  FROM     FSS_DESKBANK_REF
                                  WHERE    recordtype = r_rec_types.recordtype
                                  ORDER BY recordType, fieldorder;
-- SELECT to get the SUM of datarows for v_credit
SELECT      SUM(transactionamount)
INTO      v_credit...
-- SELECT to get the SUM of datarows for v_debit
SELECT      SUM(transactionamount)
INTO      v_debit....
FOR r_head IN c_header LOOP
v_sqlString := v_sqlString || r_head.justification|| '('
                                     || r_head.db_field ||','
                                     || r_head.fieldsize || ','
                                     || r_head.paddingchar || ')';
v_sqlString := v_sqlString || ' FROM ' || v_tbl_name;
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE('SQL --> '||v_sqlString);
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE v_sqlString INTO v_line;
END LOOP;
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE(v_line);
END build_dbfile;So the loop goes through the table rows, grabs each data value and formatting column, and builds the sql string, which is then passed to the execute statement. The issue is the ones where the datarow contains a reference to v_credit, and the error is generated. ie r_head.db_field contains the string "v_credit"
Satish, the sql does look like that in the string, but the string is built from the table, not hardcoded. ie v_sqlString = "SELECT LPAD(v_credit,10,'0' ) FROM dual" when it is passed to the EXECUTE IMMEDIATE.
Edited by: user5426606 on 20-May-2009 05:19

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ORACLE_HOME = D:\Oracle\Product\11.2.0\dbhome
GATEWAY_HOME = D:\Oracle\Product\11.2.0\gw
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D:\Oracle\Product\11.2.0\gw\NETWORK\ADMIN
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(PROGRAM = dg4msql)
(SID_DESC=
(SID_NAME=dg4msql)
(ORACLE_HOME = D:\Oracle\Product\11.2.0\gw)
(PROGRAM = dg4msql)
GWLISTENER =
(DESCRIPTION_LIST =
(DESCRIPTION =
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Connecting to (DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=IPC)(KEY=EXTPROC1522)))
STATUS of the LISTENER
Alias GWLISTENER
Version TNSLSNR for 32-bit Windows: Version 11.2.0.1.0 - Produ
ction
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Uptime 0 days 0 hr. 29 min. 43 sec
Trace Level off
Security ON: Local OS Authentication
SNMP OFF
Listener Parameter File D:\Oracle\Product\11.2.0\gw\network\admin\listener.ora
Listener Log File d:\oracle\product\11.2.0\gw\diag\tnslsnr\appsdba\gwlis
tener\alert\log.xml
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(DESCRIPTION=(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=ipc)(PIPENAME=\\.\pipe\EXTPROC1522ipc)))
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D:\Oracle\Product\11.2.0\gw\network\admin\sqlnet.ora
# sqlnet.ora Network Configuration File: D:\Oracle\Product\11.2.0\gw\network\admin\sqlnet.ora
# Generated by Oracle configuration tools.
# This file is actually generated by netca. But if customers choose to
# install "Software Only", this file wont exist and without the native
# authentication, they will not be able to connect to the database on NT.
SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES= (NTS)
NAMES.DIRECTORY_PATH= (TNSNAMES, EZCONNECT)
D:\Oracle\Product\11.2.0\gw\dg4msql\admin\initdg4msql.ora
# This is a customized agent init file that contains the HS parameters
# that are needed for the Database Gateway for Microsoft SQL Server
# HS init parameters
#HS_FDS_CONNECT_INFO=[192.168.0.8]/SRV-TULIP/WZHRM
HS_FDS_CONNECT_INFO=192.168.0.8,1433//wzhrm
HS_FDS_TRACE_LEVEL=OFF
HS_FDS_RECOVERY_ACCOUNT=RECOVER
HS_FDS_RECOVERY_PWD=RECOVER
D:\Oracle\Product\11.2.0\dbhome\NETWORK\ADMIN\tnsnames.ora
ORCL =
(DESCRIPTION =
(ADDRESS = (PROTOCOL = TCP)(HOST = 192.168.0.90)(PORT = 1521))
(CONNECT_DATA =
(SERVER = DEDICATED)
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PROD=
(DESCRIPTION=
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sqlserver =
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(CONNECT_DATA =
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dg4msql =
(DESCRIPTION=
(ADDRESS=(PROTOCOL=tcp)(HOST=192.168.0.90)(PORT=1522))
(CONNECT_DATA=(SID=dg4msql))
(HS=OK)
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empId description
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0003 Mr. Ali Ejaz
0004 Mr. Mujahid Muhammad
0005 Mr. Sharjeel Malik
0006 Mr. Kashif Imran
0009 Mr. Adeel Sadiq
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0010 Mr. Hafiz Muhammad Bilal
0012 Mr. Asif Ahmad Arif
0018 Mr. Muhammad Akram
0019 Mr. Aftab Hussain
0020 Mr. Ehtisham Maqsood Attari
0022 Mr. Adnan Raza Saleem
0023 Mr. Badar-Uz- Zaman
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select empId from rvwHLoanApp@dg4msql
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00904: "EMPID": invalid identifier
SQL> select empId,description from rvwHLoanApp@dg4msql;
select empId,description from rvwHLoanApp@dg4msql
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00904: "DESCRIPTION": invalid identifier
SQL>
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Waiting for help. What thing im missing.....

Naeem,
There is no setting that would allow you to drop the double quotes round the object names as the translation to upper case is made by the Oracle database.
The only solution would be to create views in Oracle that translate the names to upper case, for example -
CREATE VIEW EMP (EMPNO, ENAME, SAL, HIREDATE)
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FROM "emp"@DG4MSQL;
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SELECT EMPNO, ENAME FROM EMP;
This is discussed in the documentation -
Oracle® Database Gateway for SQL Server User’s Guide, 11g Release 2 (11.2)
in the section -
SQL Server Gateway Features and Restriction
- Case Sensitivity
Regards,
Mike

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SELECT a1.dummy,
(SELECT a2.dummy FROM
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) a2
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