ORA-00972

ORA-00972 identifier is too long

What causes an ORA-00972 error?

The name of a schema object exceeds 30 characters. Schema objects are tables, clusters, views, indexes, synonyms, tablespaces, and usernames.

How Xynomix can help

Shorten the name to 30 characters or less.

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