What to do when a table name is a reserved word?

Question

I know the best answer is not to use a reserved word to name a table. But I have no control over that in this situation. I have read that using all Caps and quotations will allow you to use the table name in queries, i.e. "CATEGORY" is suppose to free the table to be used. But that is certainly not working, nor any variation of that formatting.
Does anyone know how to format a reserved word to allow queries?
Thank You

Answer 1

Use double quotes:
SQL> create table ALTER (a number);
create table ALTER (a number)
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00903: invalid table name
SQL> create table "ALTER" (a number);
Table created.
SQL> desc alter
ERROR:
ORA-00931: missing identifier
SQL> desc "ALTER"
Name                                      Null?    Type
A                                                  NUMBER
SQL> insert into "ALTER"
  2  select level from dual connect by level<=10;
10 rows created.
SQL> select * from "ALTER";
         A
         1
         2
         3
         4
         5
         6
         7
         8
         9
        10
10 rows selected.BTW CATEGORY is not a reserved word:
SQL> create table category (a number);
Table created.Max
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Edited by: Massimo Ruocchio on Feb 25, 2010 12:32 AM