Passing variable to create table command

Question

Is it possible to pass a varaiable to the create table command.
At each yearend we have to manually create copy tables of the years data these are held as table_name_2002 etc. The original table only holds the current years data. We would like to create a script to create all these, along the lines of
CREATE TABLE table_name_||'&year'
AS
SELECT * FROM table_name;
As his is run every year we would like to be able to run the same script, and just pass in the year each time.
however i cannot get this to work, is there another way round this?
Thanks

Answer 1

try this (assuming the year is passed in as the first runtime parameter):
CREATE TABLE table_name_&1.
AS
SELECT * FROM table_name;
otherwise if you do not want to work with runtime parameters you can do it like this so that v_year is only asked for once:
define vv_year="&v_year."
CREATE TABLE table_name_&vv_year.
AS
SELECT * FROM table_name;
or you can ask for it your self, which is probably the nicest way of dealing with it ;) :
accept v_year char prompt Please input the year:
CREATE TABLE table_name_&v_year.
AS
SELECT * FROM table_name;
HTH,
Lennert