Question

I’m trying to run the following command in Oracle

SELECT artistic_name 
FROM Artist 
INNER JOIN Groups ON artistic_name = Groups.group_name, Groups.group_name = ‘Frankensense’, OR Groups.group_name = ‘Jameson’;

The error is: SP2-0734: unknown command beginning "1) SELECT ..." - rest of line ignored.

I can’t see what the exact problem is with this.

Anyone have any ideas?

Thanks.

Answer 1

First, posting the exact error (the ORA-xxxxx error code and the full text of the error message) is always helpful.

I suspect that you want

SELECT artistic_name 
  FROM Artist 
       INNER JOIN Groups 
       ON artistic_name = Groups.group_name
 WHERE Groups.group_name IN ('Frankensense', 'Jameson');

You could also put the group_name predicate in the ON clause

SELECT artistic_name 
  FROM Artist 
       INNER JOIN Groups 
       ON(     artistic_name = Groups.group_name
           AND Groups.group_name IN ('Frankensense', 'Jameson'));