Maybe you could post some of your code?

Are you binding a value to that placeholder?

-Joe

--- Steve Sapovits <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> I'm using DBI with Oracle 8.1.6.  Does anyone know if you can use
> placeholders with DDL statments, such as:
> 
>   CREATE TABLE FOO AS SELECT * FROM BAR WHERE name = ?
> 
> I get an Oracle ORA-01036 error (illegal variable name/number) 
> which suggests it can't be done.  A DBA here thinks it should only
> fail on older Oracle versions.  I have not found any definitive
> answers in the Oracle docs we have or on the web so far.
> 
> ----
> Steve Sapovits
> GSI Commerce
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 


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