Question

I have a table that has a column named RANK which is a keyword in Oracle.

Now I need to insert data in this table :

insert into mytbl (RANK)
select RANK from other_table

when executing this query I got the following error :

ORA-00907: missing right parenthesis

How does one escape a keyword?

Answer 1

Oracle uses double quotes " to escape reserved words.

insert into mytbl ("RANK")
select "RANK" 
from other_table

One other note, Oracle requires correct case as well.