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ORA-942 Dropping or Accessing a Tables that Exists (Doc ID 1010846.6)

Last updated on NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Database - Enterprise Edition - Version 7.0.16.0 and later
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Gen 1 Exadata Cloud at Customer (Oracle Exadata Database Cloud Machine) - Version N/A and later
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

Problem Description:
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You are trying to drop or access a table and keep getting the following error:

  ORA-00942: table or view does not exist.
 
--OR--

  ORA-00903: invalid table name

If you select "table_name" from "dba_tables" or "user_tables" you find the 
table does exist, but the "table_name" is listed with case sensitive 
characters.

 

Cause

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