Special Characters in Create Table......

How can I use & sign in the column name in Create Table Statement:
Create Table
(aa&bb varchar2(10));

You can create table with column name having "&" in the following way... but I won't recommend that because you'll have problems when you would need to Query the table or perform any DML operation!!
SQL> Create Table not_good_practise
2 ("aa&bb" varchar2(10));
Enter value for bb: &bb
old 2: ("aa&bb" varchar2(10))
new 2: ("aa&bb" varchar2(10))
Table created.
SQL> desc not_good_practise
Name Null? Type
aa&bb VARCHAR2(10)
SQL> drop table not_good_practise;
Table dropped.
Be sure ... why you want to do something like this before you put it in your design.

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I have a text value which contains special characters such as & and #.
After I pass from one page to another,
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Actually the value is saved in table like this: "TEST&"
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Avoid doing that through a link. If this is a page item then submit the page and redirect to the target page using a branching. On the target page, create a computation to compute the target item using the original page item as the source. If you are talking about a report, use the id to pass through the link and fetch the text column in an on load computation.
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Oracle SQL query for getting specific special characters from a table

Hi all,
This is my table
Table Name- Table1
S.no    Name
1          aaaaaaaa
2          a1234sgjghb
3          a@3$%jkhkjn
4          abcd-dfghjik
5          bbvxzckvbzxcv&^%#
6          ashgweqfg/gfjwgefj////
7          sdsaf$([]:'
8          <-fdsjgbdfsg
9           dfgfdgfd"uodf
10         aaaa bbbbz#$
11         cccc dddd-/mnm
The output has to be
S.no    Name
3          a@3$%jkhkjn
5          bbvxzckvbzxcv&^%#
7          sdsaf$([]:'
8          <-fdsjgbdfsg
10         aaaa bbbbz#$
It has to return "Name" column which is having special characters,whereas some special chars like -, / ," and space are acceptable.
The Oracle query has to print columns having special characters excluding -,/," and space
Can anyone help me to get a SQL query for the above.
Thanks in advance.

You can achieve it in multiple ways. Here are few.
SQL> with t
2 as
3 (
4 select 1 id, 'aaaaaaaa' name from dual union all
5 select 2 id, 'a1234sgjghb' name from dual union all
6 select 3 id, 'a@3$%jkhkjn' name from dual union all
7 select 4 id, 'abcd-dfghjik' name from dual union all
8 select 5 id, 'bbvxzckvbzxcv&^%#' name from dual union all
9 select 6 id, 'ashgweqfg/gfjwgefj////' name from dual union all
10 select 7 id, 'sdsaf$([]:''' name from dual union all
11 select 8 id, '<-fdsjgbdfsg' name from dual union all
12 select 9 id, 'dfgfdgfd"uodf' name from dual union all
13 select 10 id, 'aaaa bbbbz#$' name from dual union all
14 select 11 id, 'cccc dddd-/mnm' name from dual
15 )
16 select *
17    from t
18   where regexp_like(translate(name,'a-/" ','a'), '[^[:alnum:]]');
        ID NAME
         3 a@3$%jkhkjn
         5 bbvxzckvbzxcv&^%#
         7 sdsaf$([]:'
         8 <-fdsjgbdfsg
        10 aaaa bbbbz#$
SQL> with t
2 as
3 (
4 select 1 id, 'aaaaaaaa' name from dual union all
5 select 2 id, 'a1234sgjghb' name from dual union all
6 select 3 id, 'a@3$%jkhkjn' name from dual union all
7 select 4 id, 'abcd-dfghjik' name from dual union all
8 select 5 id, 'bbvxzckvbzxcv&^%#' name from dual union all
9 select 6 id, 'ashgweqfg/gfjwgefj////' name from dual union all
10 select 7 id, 'sdsaf$([]:''' name from dual union all
11 select 8 id, '<-fdsjgbdfsg' name from dual union all
12 select 9 id, 'dfgfdgfd"uodf' name from dual union all
13 select 10 id, 'aaaa bbbbz#$' name from dual union all
14 select 11 id, 'cccc dddd-/mnm' name from dual
15 )
16 select *
17    from t
18   where translate
19         (
20            lower(translate(name,'a-/" ','a'))
21          , '.0123456789abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'
22          , '.'
23         ) is not null;
        ID NAME
         3 a@3$%jkhkjn
         5 bbvxzckvbzxcv&^%#
         7 sdsaf$([]:'
         8 <-fdsjgbdfsg
        10 aaaa bbbbz#$
SQL>

Special characters & numbers in tables....

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I've just started using Pages '08 and I'm having a couple of problems.....
Firstly.... I can't seem to insert special characters.... when I click Edit > Special Characters... nothing happens.... is there something wrong with my software?
Secondly.... When I try to insert a value such as 1.00 into a table Pages automatically corrects it to 1, deleting the decimal places.... how can I change this?....
Any help at all would be great...... Thanks...

Firstly.... I can't seem to insert special characters.... when I click Edit > Special Characters... nothing happens.... is there something wrong with my software?
There is a possible fix here:
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How to find Special Characters in a table ?

Hi,
I have a problem, during a data upload by the client, some special characters were uploaded in the database.
Sample data : " AC Power Cord Denmark "
I want to find all records containing such special characters and update them.
TOAD is able to display these characters but when i copy them onto the query... it doesnt work.
Can we know which encoding is that ? or do something to take care of this ?
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Champ

insert into t1 values ('joe$%"likes#$%#to*()ride%^$#his bike');
1 rows inserted
select * from t1;
C1
joe$%"likes#$%#to*()ride%^$#his bike
1 rows selected
select translate(c1,'!@#$%^&*()"','          ') from t1;
TRANSLATE(C1,'!@#$%^&*()"','')
joe likes    to   ride    his bike
1 rows selected
update t1 set c1 = translate(c1,'!@#$%^&*()"','          ');
1 rows updated
select * from t1;
C1
joe likes    to   ride    his bike
1 rows selectedI didn't notice your special special characters, but it still works:
insert into t1 values ('joe likes his'||chr(22));
select * from t1;
select translate(c1,chr(22),' ') from t1;
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How to insert some special Characters in a table

Dear All
I have a value with some italian Characters ..
Like :- )
e l’attivazione - Here the ' symbol is not single quote , it is some ITALIAN characters .
So how can i insert .
I have value like :- e l’attivazione "Trasloco Linea Telefonica”, disponibili sul portale TUO, sezione Accessi/Traslochi"
Insert into ABC values ('e l’attivazione "Trasloco Linea Telefonica”, disponibili sul portale TUO, sezione {code}Accessi/Traslochi"');

Hey,
You can run below command to insert such value in single column of the table.
INSERT INTO ABC VALUES ('e l’attivazione "Trasloco Linea Telefonical, disponibili sul portale TUO, sezione Accessi/Traslochi"');
or you need to get ascii value of the character '’'
e.g.
SELECT ASCII('’') FROM dual;
O/P
14844057
then use this ASCII value in CHR function while inserting data into table
INSERT INTO ABC VALUES ('e l'||CHR(14844057)||'attivazione "Trasloco Linea Telefonical, disponibili sul portale TUO, sezione Accessi/Traslochi"');
When you will query the data from table you be get below value for that column.
e l’attivazione "Trasloco Linea Telefonical, disponibili sul portale TUO, sezione Accessi/Traslochi"
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How to remove special characters in a particular column

Hello,
i have a csv feed and i load it into a sql table (the sql table has all varchar data type fields)
feed data looks like (just sampled 2 rows but my file has thousands of like this)
"K" "AIF" "AMERICAN IND FORCE" "FRI" "EXAMP" "133" "DISPLAY" "505250" "MEDIA INC." 03/01/10" "INV31202" ".00" ".00" "0.00" "ALLO" ;
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some times i got some special characters in my table column (example: in my invoice no column some time i do have # or ! kind of invalid characters ) so how can i remove some kind of special characters in my column
once it is eliminated then i can write it to new table (with correct data format such as integer)
could some one please tell me how can i remove special character in a column of particular table
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Removes any characters from
@myString that do not meet the
provided criteria.
CREATE FUNCTION dbo.GetCharacters(@myString varchar(500), @validChars varchar(100))
RETURNS varchar(500) AS
BEGIN
While @myString like '%[^' + @validChars + ']%'
Select @myString = replace(@myString,substring(@myString,patindex('%[^' + @validChars + ']%',@myString),1),'')
Return @myString
END
Go
Declare @testStr varchar(1000),
@i int
Set @i = 1
while @i < 255
Select
@TestStr = isnull(@TestStr,'') + isnull(char(@i),''),
@i = @i + 1
Select @TestStr
Select dbo.GetCharacters(@TestStr,'a-z')
Select dbo.GetCharacters(@TestStr,'0-9')
Select dbo.GetCharacters(@TestStr,'0-9a-z')
Select dbo.GetCharacters(@TestStr,'02468bferlki')
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Hi-
I am working on a report which is refering CLOB column from database. If the CLOB had special characters like & or <, the report is returning error 'Expected name instead of .' I created a view and stored CLOB as varchar2 and refered the view in query and the report works fine, but the drawback of this is varchar2 max limit is 4000 chars and the text i intend to show is more than 4000 chars.
Can someone share any ideas on how to get around this error?
Thanks in advance.

Hmm, thought I'd dig a little to see what you guys mean. Indeed XML Publisher Data Template doesn't translate CLOB special characters and so BIP chokes!
My advice - log a bug and write XML output in PL/SQL.
Here's my working for reference (note spaces added after & to preserve special chars!):
CREATE TABLE test_clob (
id            NUMBER(15)
, file_name     VARCHAR2(1000)
, file_contents CLOB
, timestamp     DATE
insert into test_clob
(id,file_name, file_contents)
values
(3,'Greeting = <Hello, world>','Greeting = <Hello, my funky file contents>');
ed gg.sql
select '<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>'
from dual;
select xmlelement("row",
                  xmlelement("file_name", file_name),
                  xmlelement("file_contents", file_contents))
from   test_clob
where id = 3;
:q
set serverout off termout off echo off verify off head off trimspool on
set lines 300 pages 0 long 20000
spool gg.xml
@gg
spool off
exit
cat gg.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<row><file_name>Greeting = & lt;Hello, world& gt;</file_name><file_contents>Greeting = & lt;Hello, my funky file contents& gt;</file_contents></row>
OKAY: both fields translated! Let's try using dataTemplate
<?xml version = '1.0' encoding = 'utf-8'?>
<dataTemplate name="XXV8_CLOB" description="$Header$" defaultPackage="" Version="1.0">
<parameters>
</parameters>
<properties>
<property name="include_parameters" value="true" />
<property name="include_null_Element" value="true" />
<property name="include_rowsettag" value="false" />
<property name="scalable_mode" value="on" />
<property name="debug_mode" value="off" />
</properties>
<dataQuery>
<sqlStatement name="Q_LOBS">
<![CDATA[
select file_name, file_contents
from   test_clob
where id = 3
]]>
</sqlStatement>
</dataQuery>
</dataTemplate>
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<XXV8_CLOB>
<LIST_Q_LOBS>
<Q_LOBS>
<FILE_NAME>Greeting = & lt;Hello, world& gt;</FILE_NAME>
<FILE_CONTENTS>
Greeting = <Hello, my funky file contents></FILE_CONTENTS>
</Q_LOBS>
</LIST_Q_LOBS>
</XXV8_CLOB>
CHOKE:
Post-processing of request 2805016 failed at 18-MAR-2008 22:59:19 with the error message:
One or more post-processing actions failed. Consult the OPP service log for details.
Error message in OPP output processor:
Template code: XXV8_CLOB
Template app: XXV8
Language:      en
Territory:     US
Output type:   PDF
[3/18/08 10:59:18 PM] [UNEXPECTED] [752315:RT2805016] java.lang.reflect.InvocationTargetException
     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke0(Native Method)
     at sun.reflect.NativeMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(NativeMethodAccessorImpl.java:39)
     at sun.reflect.DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.invoke(DelegatingMethodAccessorImpl.java:25)
     at java.lang.reflect.Method.invoke(Method.java:324)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.common.xml.XSLT10gR1.invokeParse(XSLT10gR1.java:517)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.common.xml.XSLT10gR1.transform(XSLT10gR1.java:224)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.common.xml.XSLTWrapper.transform(XSLTWrapper.java:177)
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     at oracle.apps.xdo.template.fo.util.FOUtility.generateFO(FOUtility.java:997)
     at oracle.apps.xdo.template.fo.util.FOUtility.generateFO(FOUtility.java:212)
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     at oracle.xdo.parser.v2.NonValidatingParser.parseAttr(NonValidatingParser.java:1444)
     at oracle.xdo.parser.v2.NonValidatingParser.parseAttributes(NonValidatingParser.java:1394)
     at oracle.xdo.parser.v2.NonValidatingParser.parseElement(NonValidatingParser.java:1225)
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     ... 17 moreAs you can see the varchar special characters are "escaped" or translated or whatever you want, but not the CLOB!
Regards,
Gareth
Blog: http://garethroberts.blogspot.com/

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Hi All,
I want to insert special characters in my table. Here is my query
insert into COM_TAB(TAB_COMMENTS) VALUES('ADAM'S FARM & FARM-GANG APPLE GOOGLE') .Please help.Also tel me is there any method to handle special characters like using ascci values for it

Put the & and ' as below
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a.) tablename
b.) [tablename]
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d.) "tablename"
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>b.) [tablename]
As Naomi pointed it out, the above is dangerous because unintentionally special characters or space can be included and accepted by SQL Server.
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Related QUOTENAME:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms176114.aspx
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You can use following pl/sql block for this purpose. It will check if there is any special character in a field(item description here) and will display that display the position and ascii value of that special character. Later you can write another query(if needed) to remove those special characters.
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l_cnt := l_cnt + 1 ;
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END IF;
END LOOP;
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i am having a requirement to create/use "add link to a document" content type for a item in the document library.
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I figured it out
Just in case people had the same problem here is how it's done: (i misunderstood the two posters above me, so you are actually going to change fonts within acrobat, like they said, and save it)
Open the pdf in acrobat, go and change font settings for each of your fields and change the font under the "Appearance" tab.

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