DBMS_METADATA.GET_DDL Not working

Hi All,
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.4.0 - 64bi
I am creating table as:
create table XX as select * from fnd;
   select   DBMS_METADATA.GET_DDL('TABLE','xx') from dualI get the below given error:
Error starting at line 1 in command:
select DBMS_METADATA.GET_DDL('TABLE','xx') from dual
Error report:
SQL Error: ORA-31603: object "xx" of type TABLE not found in schema "A395513"
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_METADATA", line 1548
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_METADATA", line 1585
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_METADATA", line 1902
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_METADATA", line 2793
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_METADATA", line 4333
ORA-06512: at line 1
31603. 00000 - "object \"%s\" of type %s not found in schema \"%s\""
*Cause:    The specified object was not found in the database.
*Action:   Correct the object specification and try the call again.

Oracle names are stored in dictionary in upper case (unless quoted name is used at create time). Use XX as table name:
SQL> create table XX as select * from emp;
Table created.
SQL> set long 1000
SQL> select   DBMS_METADATA.GET_DDL('TABLE','xx') from dual;
ERROR:
ORA-31603: object "xx" of type TABLE not found in schema "SCOTT"
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_METADATA", line 1548
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_METADATA", line 1585
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_METADATA", line 1902
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_METADATA", line 2793
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_METADATA", line 4333
ORA-06512: at line 1
no rows selected
SQL> select   DBMS_METADATA.GET_DDL('TABLE','XX') from dual;
DBMS_METADATA.GET_DDL('TABLE','XX')
CREATE TABLE "SCOTT"."XX"
   (    "EMPNO" NUMBER(4,0),
        "ENAME" VARCHAR2(10),
        "JOB" VARCHAR2(9),
        "MGR" NUMBER(4,0),
        "HIREDATE" DATE,
        "SAL" NUMBER(7,2),
        "COMM" NUMBER(7,2),
        "DEPTNO" NUMBER(2,0)
   ) PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255 NOCOMPRESS LOGGING
DBMS_METADATA.GET_DDL('TABLE','XX')
STORAGE(INITIAL 65536 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645
PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT)
TABLESPACE "USERS"
SQL> SY.

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G
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        "CORRID" VARCHAR2(128),
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NOT APPLY NO
1 row selected.
13:00:48 hscpy.system> select * from DBA_DATA_FILES where tablespace_name = 'PTTBL';
FILE_NAME
FILE_ID TABLESPACE_NAME BYTES BLOCKS STATUS RELATIVE_FNO AUT MAXBYTES MAXBLOCKS INCREMENT_BY USER_BYTES USER_BLOCKS
/oradata/HSCPY/data1/pttbl01.dbf
102 PTTBL 2097152000 256000 AVAILABLE 102 YES 3145728000 384000 6400 2097086464 255992
1 row selected.
Yes, its a PeopleSoft database, and its not 1 MB in our "running" version. ;-) I've also looked more closely at the script I created with my incredibly complex script (select 'select dbms_metadata.get_ddl(''TABLESPACE'',''' || tablespace_name || ''') from dual;' from dba_tablespaces;) and am seeing more than a few with SIZE 1114112.
I am running it in the same version of sqlplus. I've set my Oracle environment (with oraenv) to this HSCPY environment and use sqlplus from the same Oracle Home.
Thanks,
Hal...

Dbms_metadata.get_ddl and lob columns

Good day, all,
I get the disappointing results, below, when trying to use the 9i dbms_metadata browsing package against a table with a BLOB (or CLOB) column. In other cases, it works fine; so I believe that it is not a "setup" or security problem.
Do you know any magic to get this to work?
Thanks!
Don M.
SQL> create table x (c1 blob);
Table created.
SQL> select dbms_metadata.get_ddl ('TABLE','X','DMAIER') from dual;
ERROR:
ORA-19206: Invalid value for query or REF CURSOR parameter
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_XMLGEN", line 83
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_METADATA", line 345
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_METADATA", line 410
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_METADATA", line 449
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_METADATA", line 615
ORA-06512: at "SYS.DBMS_METADATA", line 1221
ORA-06512: at line 1

I have gone through some errors with invalid XDB objects when wanted to run dbms_metadata.get_ddl too. That was on 10gR2 (10.2.0.1 - though other instance was installed in "same" manner and everything worked ok). I had to drop and recreate XDK objects again - following some metalink note - I have posted the exact steps on metalink, I think I ran following commands from $ORACLE_HOME/RDBMS/ADMIN
catnomta.sql
catnodp.sql
rmxml.sql
catxml.sql
utlcxml.sql
prvtcxml.plb
catnomta.sql
dbmsmeta.sql
dbmsmeti.sql
dbmsmetu.sql
catemeta.sql
prvtmeta.plb
prvtmeti.plb
prvtmetu.plb
initmeta.sql
catdph.sql
catdpb.sql
initmeta.sql

Getting table script using dbms_metadata.get_ddl, but with clob field

So, Oracle 11g R2..
I'm using dbms_metadata.get_ddl to get table scripts and it's working fine..
now, I have a table with clob field, and it's not working... I got an 'missing right parenthesis (ora-0907)' error...
I could paste a script that I got, but I don't think it makes any sense..
does anybody have some experience on using this package on clob tables?
tnx

this is script that I got... it's long, and it looks like it's not good
CREATE TABLE "COMMON"."TEST_AAA2"
   (    "ID" NUMBER(10,0),
    "TEKST" VARCHAR2(200 CHAR),
    "UPDATESTAMP" DATE,
    "OBJEKAT" CLOB,
     CONSTRAINT "TEST_PART_PK2" PRIMARY KEY ("ID")
USING INDEX PCTFREE 10 INITRANS 2 MAXTRANS 255 COMPUTE STATISTICS
STORAGE(INITIAL 65536 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645
PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT)
TABLESPACE "USERS"
ALTER INDEX "COMMON"."TEST_PART_PK2" UNUSABLE ENABLE
   ) PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255 NOCOMPRESS LOGGING
STORAGE(
BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT)
TABLESPACE "COMMON_DATA"
LOB ("OBJEKAT") STORE AS BASICFILE (
ENABLE STORAGE IN ROW CHUNK 8192 RETENTION
NOCACHE LOGGING
STORAGE(
BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT))
PARTITION BY RANGE ("UPDATESTAMP")
(PARTITION "P_201012" VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE(' 2011-01-01 00:00:00', 'SYYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS', 'NLS_CALENDAR=GREGORIAN'))
PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255
STORAGE(INITIAL 65536 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645
PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT)
TABLESPACE "COMMON_DATA"
LOB ("OBJEKAT") STORE AS BASICFILE (
TABLESPACE "USERS" ENABLE STORAGE IN ROW CHUNK 8192 PCTVERSION 10
NOCACHE LOGGING
STORAGE(INITIAL 65536 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645
PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT)) NOCOMPRESS ,
PARTITION "P_201101" VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE(' 2011-02-01 00:00:00', 'SYYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS', 'NLS_CALENDAR=GREGORIAN'))
PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255
STORAGE(INITIAL 65536 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645
PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT)
TABLESPACE "COMMON_DATA"
LOB ("OBJEKAT") STORE AS BASICFILE (
TABLESPACE "USERS" ENABLE STORAGE IN ROW CHUNK 8192 PCTVERSION 10
NOCACHE LOGGING
STORAGE(INITIAL 65536 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645
PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT)) NOCOMPRESS ,
PARTITION "P_201102" VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE(' 2011-03-01 00:00:00', 'SYYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS', 'NLS_CALENDAR=GREGORIAN'))
PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255
STORAGE(INITIAL 65536 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645
PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT)
TABLESPACE "COMMON_ARCHIVE"
LOB ("OBJEKAT") STORE AS BASICFILE (
TABLESPACE "COMMON_ARCHIVE" ENABLE STORAGE IN ROW CHUNK 8192 RETENTION
NOCACHE LOGGING
STORAGE(INITIAL 65536 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645
PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT)) NOCOMPRESS ,
PARTITION "P_201103" VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE(' 2011-04-01 00:00:00', 'SYYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS', 'NLS_CALENDAR=GREGORIAN'))
PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255
STORAGE(INITIAL 65536 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645
PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT)
TABLESPACE "COMMON_DATA"
LOB ("OBJEKAT") STORE AS BASICFILE (
TABLESPACE "USERS" ENABLE STORAGE IN ROW CHUNK 8192 PCTVERSION 10
NOCACHE LOGGING
STORAGE(INITIAL 65536 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645
PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT)) NOCOMPRESS ,
PARTITION "P_201104" VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE(' 2011-05-01 00:00:00', 'SYYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS', 'NLS_CALENDAR=GREGORIAN'))
PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255
STORAGE(INITIAL 65536 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645
PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT)
TABLESPACE "COMMON_ARCHIVE"
LOB ("OBJEKAT") STORE AS BASICFILE (
TABLESPACE "COMMON_ARCHIVE" ENABLE STORAGE IN ROW CHUNK 8192 RETENTION
NOCACHE LOGGING
STORAGE(INITIAL 65536 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645
PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT)) NOCOMPRESS ,
PARTITION "P_201105" VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE(' 2011-06-01 00:00:00', 'SYYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS', 'NLS_CALENDAR=GREGORIAN'))
PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255
STORAGE(INITIAL 65536 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645
PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT)
TABLESPACE "COMMON_DATA"
LOB ("OBJEKAT") STORE AS BASICFILE (
TABLESPACE "USERS" ENABLE STORAGE IN ROW CHUNK 8192 PCTVERSION 10
NOCACHE LOGGING
STORAGE(INITIAL 65536 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645
PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT)) NOCOMPRESS ,
PARTITION "P_201106" VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE(' 2011-07-01 00:00:00', 'SYYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS', 'NLS_CALENDAR=GREGORIAN'))
PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255
STORAGE(INITIAL 65536 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645
PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT)
TABLESPACE "COMMON_ARCHIVE"
LOB ("OBJEKAT") STORE AS BASICFILE (
TABLESPACE "COMMON_ARCHIVE" ENABLE STORAGE IN ROW CHUNK 8192 RETENTION
NOCACHE LOGGING
STORAGE(INITIAL 65536 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645
PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT)) NOCOMPRESS ,
PARTITION "P_201107" VALUES LESS THAN (TO_DATE(' 2011-08-01 00:00:00', 'SYYYY-MM-DD HH24:MI:SS', 'NLS_CALENDAR=GREGORIAN'))
PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255
STORAGE(INITIAL 65536 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645
PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT)
TABLESPACE "COMMON_DATA"
LOB ("OBJEKAT") STORE AS BASICFILE (
TABLESPACE "COMMON_ARCHIVE" ENABLE STORAGE IN ROW CHUNK 8192 PCTVERSION 10
NOCACHE LOGGING
STORAGE(INITIAL 65536 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645
PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT)) NOCOMPRESS ,
PARTITION "P_MAXVALUE" VALUES LESS THAN (MAXVALUE)
PCTFREE 10 PCTUSED 40 INITRANS 1 MAXTRANS 255
STORAGE(INITIAL 65536 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645
PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT)
TABLESPACE "COMMON_DATA"
LOB ("OBJEKAT") STORE AS BASICFILE (
TABLESPACE "COMMON_ARCHIVE" ENABLE STORAGE IN ROW CHUNK 8192 PCTVERSION 10
NOCACHE LOGGING
STORAGE(INITIAL 65536 NEXT 1048576 MINEXTENTS 1 MAXEXTENTS 2147483645
PCTINCREASE 0 FREELISTS 1 FREELIST GROUPS 1 BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT CELL_FLASH_CACHE DEFAULT)) NOCOMPRESS )

Using DBMS_METADATA.GET_DDL get error: ORA-00907: missing right parenthesis

Hi,
I'm trying to extract schema DDL from a database (10.2.0.4.0 - 64bit Enterprise Edition on Solaris 10). I run the query below and get an ORA-00907: missing right parenthesis error.
SELECT DBMS_METADATA.GET_DDL( REPLACE(object_type,' ','_') AS object_type, object_name) FROM user_objects WHERE object_type NOT IN ('TABLE_PARTITION','INDEX_PARTITION','LOB');
This is the output when running the above in sqlplus worksheet
select DBMS_METADATA.GET_DDL( REPLACE(object_type,' ','_') as object_type, object_name) FROM user_objects where object_type not in ('TABLE_PARTITION','INDEX_PARTITION','LOB')
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00907: missing right parenthesis
removing the where clause gives the following:
select DBMS_METADATA.GET_DDL( REPLACE(object_type,' ','_') as object_type, object_name) FROM user_objects
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00907: missing right parenthesis
Any pointers would be gratefully received. I know I could get the DDL out using exp/imp but I want to understand why I'm getting the missing parenthesis error.
cheers,
Ewan

SELECT DBMS_METADATA.GET_DDL( REPLACE(object_type,' ','_') AS object_type, object_name) FROM user_objects WHERE object_type NOT IN You don't need an alias here. Get rid of " AS object_type" and it should work.

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