Hi All, I am connecting to Oracle 8, from a sparcstation with Perl version 5.005_02.

I am trying to run a SELECT statement but I get an error that the sixth field in my SELECT statement is too long.

DBD::Oracle::db prepare failed: ORA-00972: identifier is too long (DBD
+: error possibly near <*> indicator at char 334 in ' SELECT xxx_xxx_x
+xx_xxx,
                         yyy_yyy_yyy_yyy_yyy,
                         zzz_zzz_zzz_zzz,
                         aaa_aaa_aaa_aaa_aaa,
                         *>bbb_bbb_bbbbb_bbbbbbbb_bbbbbbbbb,

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I know that this particular error indicates that my field name is more than 30 characters long,

But the problem is that the value on the DB is that long and there is no option to change the name on the DB.

How do I overcome this problem.

Thank you to al the Gurus who reply,

Regards,

Julian