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Also, I think you should not be using double quotes, as in ORACLE they are not used for string literals but for identifiers, so you'll end up with double single quotes galore (''''''''), at least that is what I ended up doing>
>I have used the double quotes in queries against this same database in the past without any problem at all.
Interesting. Do you know how do you enable double quotes to be used as string delimiters in Oracle? (other than using q or nq, of course) Is it something you enable in the Linked Server from MS SQL?
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