Confusing error about missing left parenthesis in SQL statement

Question

SQLPLUS says I have missing left parenthesis with this statement in my sql script..

CREATE TABLE people(
    id INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
    name VARCHAR2
)         


        

Answer 1

You are getting this error because you didn't specify the character with datatype varchar2. Try something like this:

CREATE TABLE people(
id INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
name VARCHAR2(20) );