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Message Posted: Thu, 18 May 2006 @ 14:22:16 GMT

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> I'm getting an syntax error on username

          > create user :username from DBS_users

This is because you cannot put a host variable in this position. I can't find the full list of rules, but the gist is that host variables can only be put where a literal could be. So just as you cannot say

     create user 'bob' ...;

you also cannot say

     create user :username ...;

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