Monday, July 21, 2025

Finally! Error messages that really help!

A rather huge problem in debugging queries over the years was the dreaded “ambiguous column” error.  It wasn’t something I ran into a lot, but when I did it always seemed to come up in rather large queries and was unbelievably hard to figure out which column. 

 

Now in 23ai we finally have an error message that at least gives a clue:

 

ORA-00918: CREATED: column ambiguously specified - appears in RVD_SCALAR_ALLUSERS and RVD_SCALAR_ALLOBJECTS

 

Apparently other error messages have also been enhanced to be more helpful as well.  I’ve personally not bumped into any of them just yet, but this is great news.

 

Well that only took about 100 years. 😏

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