The PRESERVE_COL_NAMES=
and PRESERVE_TAB_NAMES= LIBNAME options determine how
SAS/ACCESS
Interface to Oracle handles case sensitivity, spaces, and special
characters. For information about these options, see
Overview: LIBNAME Statement for Relational Databases .
You can name such Oracle
objects as tables, views, columns, and indexes. For the Oracle 7 Server,
objects also include database triggers, procedures, and stored functions.
They follow these naming conventions.
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A name must be from 1 to 30 characters
long. Database names are limited to 8 characters, and link names are
limited to 128 characters.
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A name must begin with a letter.
However, if you enclose the name in double quotation marks, it can
begin with any character.
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A name can contain the letters
A through Z, the digits 0 through 9, the underscore (_), $, and #.
If the name appears within double quotation marks, it can contain
any characters, except double quotation marks.
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Names are not case sensitive. For
example,
CUSTOMER and
Customer are
the same. However, if you enclose an object names in double quotation
marks, it is case sensitive.
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A name cannot be an Oracle reserved
word.
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A name cannot be the same as another
Oracle object in the same schema.