Missing right parent while creating table.

Question

I get the "ORA-00907: missing right parenthesis" error while creating the table with the code below.
create table SALES_ORDER
ORDERNO varchar2(6) Primary key check(ORDERNO like 'O%'),
CLIENTNO varchar2(6) foreign key references CLIENT_MASTER(CLIENTNO),
ORDERDATE date not null,
DELYADDR varchar2(25),
SALESMANNO varchar2(6) foreign references SALESMAN_MASTER(SALESMANNO),
DELYTYPE char(1) default 'F' check(DELYTYPE IN('P','F')),
BILLYN char(1),
DELYDATE date check(DELYDATE >= ORDERDATE),
ORDERSTATUS varchar2(10) check(ORDERSTATUS IN('In Process','Fulfilled','BackOrder','Cancelled'))
What am i doing wrong?

Answer 1

Hi,
1003332 wrote:
The solution in the first reply worked.
The problem was i think with both the 'reference statement' as well as the 'check condition'.
As pointed out in the solution the 'check(DELYDATE >= ORDERDATE)' constraint was referencing another column.
So i removed the check and it worked.
But i still don't know how to implement the "DELYDATE >= ORDERDATE" condition!
Would be helpful if someone could tell how?You can find the syntax and examples in the SQL Language manual
A constraint that references more than 1 column can't be attached to one of the columns; it has to be defined as a table-level constraint, like the one at the end of this command:
create table SALES_ORDER
    ORDERNO     varchar2 (6)     Primary key     
                             check (ORDERNO like 'O%'),
    CLIENTNO     varchar2 (6)      references CLIENT_MASTER (CLIENTNO),
    ORDERDATE     date                not null,
    DELYADDR     varchar2 (25),
    SALESMANNO     varchar2(6)     references SALESMAN_MASTER (SALESMANNO),
    DELYTYPE     char (1)          default 'F'      
                                  check (DELYTYPE IN ('P','F')),
    BILLYN     char (1),
    DELYDATE     date,
    ORDERSTATUS varchar2 (10)     check (ORDERSTATUS IN ('In Process','Fulfilled','BackOrder','Cancelled')),
    CONSTRAINT  sales_order_date_ck
                    check (DELYDATE >= ORDERDATE)
);As you can see, this can be done in the CREATE TABLE statement; use an ALTER TABLE statement only if you want to.