ORA-01735: invalid ALTER TABLE option - Toad

deadend picture deadend · Jun 13, 2017 · Viewed 44.5k times · Source

When i execute below SQL in Toad its throws "ORA-01735: invalid ALTER TABLE option".

ALTER TABLE CALCULATE
  ADD (CAL_METHOD VARCHAR2(50), REMARKS VARCHAR2(500));

But when execute in SQL Developer its running successful, Is there any issue with SQL / Toad. Please advice me.

Answer

pritesh agrawal picture pritesh agrawal · Jun 13, 2017

In TOAD I suppose, you need to execute it as a script (press F5) rather that running it as a statement.