删除时出现Oracle 10g XE错误-ORA-00903：无效的表名

Question

When I issue this select statement in the Oracle web console it returns all the rows in the table:

select * from sbus;

However when I issue this delete statement I receive an error message - ORA-00903: invalid table name

delete * from sbus;

This table is very simple:

create table sbus
( id            number(11)          not null,
  sbu           varchar2(75 char)   not null,
  sbu_name      varchar2(250 char)  not null,
  constraint sbus_pk primary key (id)
    using index (create index sbus_px on sbus (id))
);

What is with the invalid table name error! And why are the records not deleted!

Answer 1

if what you are trying to accomplish is to empty the table the command is something like:

truncate sbus;

if you are trying to delete some rows:

delete from sbus where .....//put your condition

the * in your query is the problem.

Answer 2

It should be:

DELETE FROM sbus;

(without star "*")