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ORA-00911: invalid character

Cause: identifiers may not start with any ASCII character other than letters and numbers. $#_ are also allowed after the first character. Identifiers enclosed by doublequotes may contain any character other than a doublequote. Alternative quotes (q"#...#") cannot use spaces, tabs, or carriage returns as delimiters. For all other contexts, consult the SQL Language Reference Manual.
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The reason for this error is that Oracle sees a character that it considers invalid. If you use a special character in a table or column name, then try putting double quotation-marks around the name. If you use a special character in a value, put quotation marks around it. Could also be that you have a non-printable character in your query that you do not see (maybe from copy/paste). Try manually typing in the sql. Another reason could be that you forgot a single quote somewhere in your query.