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Oracle / PLSQL: ORA-00905 Error Message

Learn the cause and how to resolve the ORA-00905 error message in Oracle.

Description

When you encounter an ORA-00905 error, the following error message will appear:

  • ORA-00905: missing keyword

Cause

You tried to execute a statement, but you missed a required keyword.

Resolution

The option(s) to resolve this Oracle error are:

Option #1

Try fixing the statement and re-executing.

If you need to check out the proper syntax for your SQL statement, you can view the following pages:

SELECT Statement
INSERT Statement
UPDATE Statement
DELETE Statement

Some other useful pages are:

IN Condition
UNION Query
UNION ALL Query
Subqueries
Joins

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