Invalid Characters '(' and ')' in Insert Statement

I'm a sometime Oracle user having trouble inserting text containing ( and ) characters.
Example:
INSERT INTO _funds
(fund_id, fund_name, fund_desc)
VALUES (11, 'British Opportunities', 'The fund''s aim is to maximise total return (the combination of income and growth of capital) from a portfolio investing primarily in UK equities.The rate of growth of funds cannot be guaranteed. This fund invests in the fund manager''s own collective investment fund of the same name.');
Results in : [Err] ORA-00911: invalid character
I've tried escaping with \ and wrapping in {} but just cannot get this to work. Should there be an issue with these characters. Could it be my client (Navicat)?
Thanks.
Alan
(Server 9.2.0.1.0 on Windows)
(Server 9.2.0.1.0)
Edited by: user7578531 on Feb 27, 2009 1:16 PM
Edited by: user7578531 on Feb 27, 2009 1:16 PM
Edited by: user7578531 on Feb 27, 2009 1:17 PM

Hi and welcome to the forum,
Are you sure you have a table called _funds? that means you will have to doule quote it when referencing it.
But, you insert statement works for me:
SQL> create table "_funds"(fund_id number
                   ,fund_name varchar2(55)
                   ,fund_desc varchar2(2000))
Table created.
SQL> insert into "_funds"(fund_id
                   ,fund_name
                   ,fund_desc)
    values (11
           ,'British Opportunities'
           ,'The fund''s aim is to maximise total return (the combination of income and growth of capital) from a portfolio investing primarily in UK equities.The rate of growth of funds cannot be guaranteed. This fund invests in the fund manager''s own collective investment fund of the same name.')
1 row created.P.S: code tag looks like {noformat}{noformat} put one before and after your (formatted) code.
Regards
Peter

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