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ORA-00902: invalid datatype

Cause: The datatype entered in the CREATE or ALTER TABLE statement is not valid.
Action:Correct the syntax.
When you see this message you are using you made an error in the datatype definition of the create table/alter table command. Look more closely at the statement and check to manual if the datatype you are using really exists. Some valid datatypes are: VARCHAR2(size) ;NVARCHAR2(size) ;CHAR(size) ;NCHAR(size) NUMBER(p,s) ; NUMBER; NUMBER(p); LONG; DATE; TIMESTAMP(fractional_seconds_precision) ;RAW(size) CLOB ; NCLOB ;BLOB ;BFILE ;XMLType