Executing Script with Multiple Blanks Lines Results in Error ORA-00900 "Invalid sql statment" (Doc ID 432973.1)

Last updated on MAY 27, 2023

Applies to:

Symptoms

Executing a SQL script containing multiple blank lines between SQL statements fails with error:
ORA 00900: "invalid SQL statement."

This is usually seen when a View's definition is extracted from database using DBMS_METADAT package. The script file which contains extracted (DDL), contain blank lines.

For example consider the following statement to extract view definition and spool it to file:

Select dbms_metadata.get_ddl('VIEW','EMPVIEW','SCOTT') from dual;

This will show view definition for empview captured in a spooled file.

Create or Replace Force view "scott"."empview" ("empno","ename") as
select
empno,

ename


from
emp

Note: There are blank lines between empno and ename and between ename and from keyword.   There could be various reasons for these blank lines.

Cause

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