Errors ORA-01747 / ORA-00933 ???

Question

I'm running Oracle 8i on win98.
When I try to update numbers in a NUMBER(7,3) column with values like 18,48 I get this errormessage:
ORA-01747: invalid user.table.column-, table.column- or columnspecification
If I enter numbers without decimals in the same column, I get this error-message:
ORA-00933: SQL-command incorrectly terminated.
(both messages are translated from danish)
What is wrong ?
Jesper

Answer 1

all that means..is
ora-01747
A column name was specified improperly in the current SQL statement
ORA-00933: SQL command not properly ended
Cause: The SQL statement ends with an inappropriate clause. For example, an ORDER BY clause may have been included in a CREATE VIEW or INSERT statement.
ORDER BY cannot be used to create an ordered view or to insert in a certain order. Also, an improper SQL ending occurs if IN clause is used with only one argument (IN(X),
for example). An IN clause must have two or more arguments.
Action: Correct the syntax by removing the inappropriate clauses. It may be possible to duplicate the removed clause with another SQL statement. For example, to order the
rows of a view, do so when querying the view and not when creating it. This error can also occur in SQL*Forms applications if a continuation line is indented. Check for
indented lines and delete these spaces.
these are pretty typicall errors...
hope this helps
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