on 8/6/01 5:33 PM, Rankin, Randy at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> When I execute this query, the server returns the following error.
> Warning: OCIStmtExecute: ORA-00942: table or view does not exist in
> /usr/local/apache/htdocs/oracle/oraprod.php on line 17
>
> My suspicion is that PHP thinks that the '$' in the table name is the
> beginning of a variable. Does anyone know how to get around this so that I
> can execute a query with a table name like v$instance?
Sure. Either use single quotes:
$query = 'SELECT instance_name, host_name FROM v$instance';
Or escape the $:
$query = "SELECT instance_name, host_name FROM v\$instance";
HTH.
Sincerely,
Paul Burney
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