Limit on length of table name?

I created a table named LEARNING_PLAN_COURSE_MAPPING in SAP DB, when I deleted a record in it through EJB, it failed, following is the log.
Any advice will be appreciated.
12:14:07,947 ERROR [STDERR] javax.ejb.FinderException: Find failed: com.sap.dbtech.jdbc.ex
ceptions.DatabaseException: SAP DBTech SQL: [-4004] (at 42) Unknown table name:LEARNING_PLAN_COU_V17Q1U

I checked, the Max table name length limitation is 32. But how to modify it? I'd like to enlarge it from 32 to 64. Maybe I should ask on SAP DB forum.

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Maximum length of table name

Hi,
I am new to Abap. Can any one tell me what is the maximum laength of a table can be....In help.sap. i found that it is 18 characters... but when i am trying it here it is allowing to give only 16 letters... And the other error i am getting is the second character of table can´t be "_"..
Regards,
Shiva..

Yes, it is a little misleading. If you look at the data in DD02L, there is a table categories field in each record, notice that all names with TRANSP as the table category are 16 or less, but if you look at the INITTAB category, you will see that these can be up to 30 characters. The INITTAB category is for structures, and we know that structure names can be up to 30 characters, which is why this field is defined like this in DD02L.
Hope this helps.
Regards,
Rich Heilman

How to change the limitation of Table name's length?

The length of table's name or field's name is limited to 30 characters.
Can I change it? If I want to create a long name table,then how can I do?
Thanks in advance!

This is a duplicate of another question
How to change Table name's length?
The short answer is no, you cannot.
Justin
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http://www.ddbcinc.com/askDDBC

Maximum length allowed for column name, index name and table name?

Hi,
I want to know what is the maximum length allowed for coulmn name, table name and index name in MaxDB ?
Regards
Raj

Hi Raja,
simply check the catalog:
sqlcli bwt=> \dc domain.columns
Table "DOMAIN.COLUMNS"
| Column Name      | Type         | Length | Nullable | KEYPOS |
| ---------------- | ------------ | ------ | -------- | ------ |
| SCHEMANAME       | CHAR UNICODE | 32     | YES      |        |
| OWNER            | CHAR UNICODE | 32     | YES      |        |
| TABLENAME        | CHAR UNICODE | 32     | YES      |        |
| COLUMNNAME       | CHAR UNICODE | 32     | YES      |        |
and
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Table "DOMAIN.INDEXES"
| Column Name        | Type         | Length | Nullable | KEYPOS |
| ------------------ | ------------ | ------ | -------- | ------ |
| SCHEMANAME         | CHAR UNICODE | 32     | YES      |        |
| OWNER              | CHAR UNICODE | 32     | YES      |        |
| TABLENAME          | CHAR UNICODE | 32     | YES      |        |
| INDEXNAME          | CHAR UNICODE | 32     | YES      |        |
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JKM DB2 400 column and table name 10 character limit

I am trying to set up CDC on an iSeries. I have successfully loaded data with the LKM SQL to Oracle, and now I want to set up CDC for the table and am trying to use "JKM DB2 400" . I get invalid token errors when I try to start journalizing, and it appears to be the table and column names, used to set up CDC, which are more than the 10 character limit. Tables like SNP_JRN_SUBSCRIBER seem to come from the getJrnInfo function and other table and column names are hard coded. I want to copy the JKM and reduce all of the names to less than 10 characters.
Where else are these names used? How does the interface know which table names to use when set to use only journalized data and how can I change it to use the new shorter names? Is there a better solution?

Thanks to all for assistance. It turns out that the 10 character limit, about which the server people warned me, isn't an issue with my ODBC connection. The invalid token error was being caused by some missing qualifiers in the generated sql which caused appearances of ".tablename" rather than "tablename" and other similar. I was able to modify the knowledge module to eliminate this issue and the CDC worked correctly on my first test.

Problem with table name lengths.

Has anyone experienced with table name length problem?
When tables are created with schema registration, and the name is longer than 14 characters, the table is created. But when I "select * from xxxx_xxxx_xxxx_xxxx" it says that the table doesn't exist.
What's the max length of a table name? Or is this a problem with XDB?
Thanks,
Benjamin

Found the problem.
All table names must be all capitalized and seperated with underscore.
Is there something I need to set in oracle? or is this a bug? The tables are created but can't be accessed because of the case of table name... that doesn't make sense.

View/Table Name Length

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in lieu of renaming object and re-writing the existing
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Deleting table name containing special characters/length

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Bex Query: Too many table names in the query The maximum allowable is 256

Hi Experts,
I need your help, Im working on a Query using a multiprovider of 2 datastores, I need to work with cells to assign specific acconts values to specific rows and columns, so I was creating a Structure with elements from a Hierarchy, but I get this error when I'm half way of the structure:
"Too many table names in the query. The maximum allowable is 256.Incorrect syntax near ')'.Incorrect syntax near 'O1'."
Any idea what is happening? is ti possible to fix it? do I need to ask for a modification of my Infoproviders? Some one told me is possible to combine 2 querys, is it true?
Thanks a lot for your time and pacience.

Hi,
The maximum allowable limit is 256 holds true. It is the max no. of characteristics and key figures that can be used in the column side. While creating a structure, you create key figures (restricted or calculated) and formulas etc.. The objects that you use to create these should not be more than 256.
http://help.sap.com/saphelp_nw70/helpdata/EN/4d/e2bebb41da1d42917100471b364efa/frameset.htm
Not sure if combination of 2 query's is possible. You can use RRI. Or have a woorkbook with 2 queries.
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Help needed in making table name and column name dynamic

please check the below query? in the below message
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thanks Dmytro,
below is the script i was looking for it got it..any way thanks.
just need to replace dbms_output.put_line with utl_file.put_line
to put the code on server directory.
and execute as and when required.
Reg.
AAK
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     CURSOR tbl_cursor IS
          SELECT table_name FROM user_tables WHERE table_name IN('EMP','EMP1') ;
     CURSOR col_cursor( cp_table_name varchar2) IS
          SELECT column_name FROM user_tab_columns WHERE table_name=cp_table_name;
     --v_file_handle      utl_file.file_type;
     --v_file_dir          varchar2(30)      :=     'DIRECTORY PATH'     ';
     --v_file_name     varchar2(30)      :=      'AD_TRIGGER_TEXT.TXT';
     tbl_cursor_value     tbl_cursor%ROWTYPE;
     col_cursor_value     col_cursor%ROWTYPE;
     v_string          varchar2(4000);
     v_string_val     varchar2(4000);
BEGIN
     DELETE audit_triggers_status;
     COMMIT;
     --v_file_handle := utl_file.fopen(v_file_dir,v_file_name,'W',32000);
     OPEN tbl_cursor;
     LOOP
          FETCH tbl_cursor into tbl_cursor_value;
          EXIT WHEN tbl_cursor%NOTFOUND;
          OPEN col_cursor(tbl_cursor_value.table_name);
          DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE( 'CREATE OR REPLACE TRIGGER' ||' ad_'||tbl_cursor_value.table_name); -- short name for audit trigger coz table name will be appended to it and result should not exceed 30 char
          DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE( 'BEFORE INSERT OR UPDATE OR DELETE ON '||tbl_cursor_value.table_name);
          DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE( 'FOR EACH ROW');
          DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE( 'BEGIN');
          v_string:='INSERT INTO'||' ad_'||tbl_cursor_value.table_name||'(';
          v_string_val:='values(';
          INSERT INTO audit_triggers_status( table_name,trigger_name,audit_flag) VALUES (tbl_cursor_value.table_name,' ad_'||tbl_cursor_value.table_name,'Y');
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                    EXIT WHEN col_cursor%NOTFOUND;
                    v_string:=v_string||col_cursor_value.column_name||',';
                    v_string_val:=v_string_val||':new.'||col_cursor_value.column_name||',';
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               CLOSE COL_CURSOR;
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File naming on Russian and limitation on length of file names

Hi.
I post this message as a note for any users for whom English is not native language and in everyday practice they use native language on Linux systems.
Torrents and Linux
System:
OS: Archlinux x86_64
FS: Reiserfs
Locale: UTF-8
Client: rtorrent
torrent: http://torrents.ru/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1445641
Problem:
if one try to download this torrent with the help of rtorrent he see message
Hashing: Storage error: [Hash checker was unable to map chunk: Слишком длинное имя файла]
(this in on Russian, on English this is: 'File name too long')
Namely rtorrent couldn't handle this file
Белов А. В. - Микроконтроллеры AVR в радиолюбительской практике. Автоматика. Радиоэлектроника. Связь. Радио. Радиосвязь. Любительская радиосвязь.(2007)(336).djvu
(on Russian again).
The same message prints Transmission when one try to download this particular file.
Reason:
the name is exceeded the limitation on length of file name: 255 bytes. See, e.g.
$ echo 'Белов А. В. - Микроконтроллеры AVR в радиолюбительской практике. Автоматика. Радиоэлектроника. Связь. Радио. Радиосвязь. Любительская радиосвязь.(2007)(336).djvu' | wc -c
279
The problem doesn't depend on type of FS, it is in Linux kernel (Linux VFS). Reiserfs has limit in 4032 bytes on length of file name, Reiser4 has limit in 3976 bytes.
In this case NTFS is more advanced FS:
the limitation on length of file name is 255 UTF-16 code units (255*2 bytes).
Of course if one use 8-bit locale (e.g. cp1251, koi8-r and etc) then this problem for THIS file is not appeared:
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Info about FS limitation is taken from wikipedia.
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This is a reported bug.

How to pass the Dynamically table name and RELID in IMPORT x TO y FROM DATABASE dbtab(ar) ID Key

Hello Expert,
I wanted to know is there any way through which we can dynamically pass the table name in IMPORT condition.
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DATA: SET_RELID TYPE T52RELID-RELID.
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DATA: text_version TYPE PVRSN.
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DATA: line(132).
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Hi Srikanth
I dont know if there is another solution, but this is what i did using a dynamic subroutine, please check it
just add this lines to your code
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       mess TYPE string,
       sid TYPE string,
       wrd TYPE string,
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MC

Table without table name

Is it possible to create a table without table name and retrieve the information from that table?
Edited by: Kamesh on Sep 20, 2010 11:05 AM

Kamesh wrote:
Is it possible to create a table without table name and retrieve the information from that table?
Edited by: Kamesh on Sep 20, 2010 11:05 AMNo, every table in a schema has to have a unique name. Any string will do.
If the name does not conform to the standard rules for identifiers (including the rule about no special characters, such as spaces) then the name must be enclosed in double-quotes. As William pointed out, " " (with a single space between the quotes) is a name; it has a length of 1.
This reminds me of a great story. It's so good, it probably didn't really happen, but it's so good, I'm going to repeat it anyway.
IBM once had an "executive apptitude test" that they would give to job applicants. There were some questions you might call general knowlege or trivia questions, and each question had a weight (for example, answering an unimportant queestion might score one point, an important question might be 5 points.) One of the questions was "What is the standard width of a mobile home?", and the weight of the question was -20: answering the question correctly did serious harm to your score. The reasoning was that the more you knew about mobile homes, the less likely you were to be their kind of executive.
I wonder if this was the same kind of trick question.
I agree with Mtefft; the correct answer is something like "Why would you want to?"

R/3 Table Name.

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I have a list of say 600 field names along with their table names. (eg MARA table & BUKRS field)
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its recycle bin ; please refer to oracle documentation to understand this feature;
see below from oracle documentaion : (http://www.oracle.com/technology/pub/articles/10gdba/week5_10gdba.html)
Managing the Recycle Bin
If the tables are not really dropped in this process--therefore not releasing the tablespace--what happens when the dropped objects take up all of that space?
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In addition, there are several ways you can manually control the recycle bin. If you want to purge the specific table named TEST from the recycle bin after its drop, you could issue
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Sometimes it might be useful to purge at a higher level. For instance, you may want to purge all the objects in recycle bin in a tablespace USERS. You would issue:
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