How to format & in insert statement

SQL> insert into test
2 values('aaa & aaa');
Enter value for aaa: a
old 2: values('aaa & aaa')
new 2: values('aaa a')
The values should contain 'aaa & aaa'. But seem oracle recognize & as a keyword. Have the way to format & as a string?
Daron

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And its somewhat similar to as below.
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Execution Plan:
Plan hash value: 2232002808
| Id | Operation | Name | Rows | Bytes | Cost (%CPU)| Time | Pstart| Pstop |
| 0 | SELECT STATEMENT | | 1 | 193 | 9 (23)| 00:00:01 | | |
| 1 | HASH UNIQUE | | 1 | 193 | 9 (23)| 00:00:01 | | |
|* 2 | HASH JOIN | | 1 | 193 | 8 (13)| 00:00:01 | | |
| 3 | NESTED LOOPS | | 10 | 1740 | 4 (0)| 00:00:01 | | |
| 4 | NESTED LOOPS | | 1 | 85 | 3 (0)| 00:00:01 | | |
| 5 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | at | 1 | 16 | 2 (0)| 00:00:01 | | |
|* 6 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | atpk1 | 1 | | 1 (0)| 00:00:01 | | |
| 7 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | cd | 7359K| 484M| 1 (0)| 00:00:01 | | |
|* 8 | INDEX UNIQUE SCAN | cdpk1 | 1 | | 1 (0)| 00:00:01 | | |
|* 9 | TABLE ACCESS BY GLOBAL INDEX ROWID| ih | 10 | 890 | 2 (0)| 00:00:01 | ROWID | ROWID |
|* 10 | INDEX RANGE SCAN | IH_PAYPK_PAYERNS_PAYID | 5 | | 1 (0)| 00:00:01 | | |
| 11 | TABLE ACCESS BY INDEX ROWID | rd | 9 | 171 | 3 (0)| 00:00:01 | | |
|* 12 | INDEX RANGE SCAN | IDX_rd | 9 | | 2 (0)| 00:00:01 | | |
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0 physical reads
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240 bytes received via SQL*Net from client
2 SQL*Net roundtrips to/from client
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0 sorts (disk)
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test@ORA10G>
test@ORA10G>pratz
I think the sole purpose of that "not_exists" exception is this -
If you try to insert a NULL value for GEO_TEST2.CHAINKEY, then this trigger will throw an error even if at least one NULL value exists in GEO_TEST.CHAINKEY column.
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Message was edited by:
pratz

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