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Asked: 2026-06-17T18:03:00+00:00

Creating a table with a double quote to escape the real double quote doesn’t

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Creating a table with a double quote to escape the real double quote doesn’t seem to work in Oracle’s SQL syntax:

CREATE TABLE "MyTable" (
"Col""umn 1" varchar(168)
);

The above fails. Is there any way to escape the double quote to make ‘Col”umn 1’?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You can not.
    According to the documentation:

    Nonquoted identifiers can contain only alphanumeric characters from
    your database character set and the underscore (_), dollar sign ($),
    and pound sign (#). Database links can also contain periods (.) and
    “at” signs (@). Oracle strongly discourages you from using $ and # in
    nonquoted identifiers.

    Quoted identifiers can contain any characters and punctuations marks
    as well as spaces. However, neither quoted nor nonquoted identifiers
    can contain double quotation marks or the null character (\0).

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