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Asked: 2026-05-11T13:22:22+00:00

I’m trying to create a view in an Oracle database, but keep getting an

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I’m trying to create a view in an Oracle database, but keep getting an ORA-00907 error (missing right parenthesis). My SQL is as below:

CREATE VIEW my_view AS  ( SELECT metadata.ID,metadata.Field1,metadata.Field2,metadata.Field3,metadata.Field4,attribute1.StrValue AS Attr1, attribute2.StrValue AS Attr2  FROM metadata,data AS attribute1,data AS attribute2  WHERE      (     metadata.Type = 'TYPE1'     )  AND      (     metadata.ID = attribute1.ID AND attribute1.name = 'attr1'     )      AND      (     metadata.ID = attribute2.ID AND attribute2.name = 'attr2'     ) )

Where the table metadata defines entities, and data defines attributes for those entities.

This works fine in MS SQL and MySQL, but I keep getting the above error from Oracle.

Not been working with Oracle too long, so I don’t know a whole lot about its quirks.

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  1. You need to remove the AS in the FROM clause. Oracle allows the optional AS for aliasing column names but not for providing aliases

    SQL> ed Wrote file afiedt.buf    1  CREATE VIEW my_view AS   2  (   3  SELECT metadata.ID,metadata.Field1,metadata.Field2,metadata.Field3,metadata .Field4,attribute1.StrValue AS Attr1, attribute2.StrValue AS Attr2   4  FROM metadata,data attribute1,data attribute2   5  WHERE   6          (   7          metadata.Type = 'TYPE1'   8          )   9  AND  10          (  11          metadata.ID = attribute1.ID AND attribute1.name = 'attr1'  12          )  13          AND  14          (  15          metadata.ID = attribute2.ID AND attribute2.name = 'attr2'  16          )  17* ) SQL> /  View created.

    Depending on the tool you’re using, it may be useful to know that SQL*Plus will show you exactly where a syntax error is occurring– the snippet below shows it objecting to the AS keyword.

    SQL> ed Wrote file afiedt.buf    1  CREATE VIEW my_view AS   2  (   3  SELECT metadata.ID,metadata.Field1,metadata.Field2,metadata.Field3,metadata .Field4,attribute1.StrValue AS Attr1, attribute2.StrValue AS Attr2   4  FROM metadata,data AS attribute1,data AS attribute2   5  WHERE   6          (   7          metadata.Type = 'TYPE1'   8          )   9  AND  10          (  11          metadata.ID = attribute1.ID AND attribute1.name = 'attr1'  12          )  13          AND  14          (  15          metadata.ID = attribute2.ID AND attribute2.name = 'attr2'  16          )  17* ) SQL> / FROM metadata,data AS attribute1,data AS attribute2                    * ERROR at line 4: ORA-00907: missing right parenthesis
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