java.sql.SQLSyntaxErrorException: ORA-00942: table or view does not exist

Question

when i was trying to read data from Oracle database using the following code i was getting exception

ResultSet res=stmt.executeQuery("select * from food");

But this table is actually exist in my database when i use this command directly in the command prompt its working fine.And also for one table among the tables in database this code is working fine ,but for other table names its not working properly.So someone please explain why this is happening.

java.sql.SQLSyntaxErrorException: ORA-00942: table or view does not exist

    at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIoer.processError(T4CTTIoer.java:440)
    at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIoer.processError(T4CTTIoer.java:396)
    at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4C8Oall.processError(T4C8Oall.java:837)
    at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIfun.receive(T4CTTIfun.java:445)
    at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CTTIfun.doRPC(T4CTTIfun.java:191)
    at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4C8Oall.doOALL(T4C8Oall.java:523)
    at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CStatement.doOall8(T4CStatement.java:193)
    at oracle.jdbc.driver.T4CStatement.executeForDescribe(T4CStatement.java:852)
    at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleStatement.executeMaybeDescribe(OracleStatement.java:1153)
    at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleStatement.doExecuteWithTimeout(OracleStatement.java:1275)
    at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleStatement.executeQuery(OracleStatement.java:1477)
    at oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleStatementWrapper.executeQuery(OracleStatementWrapper.java:392)
    at connecttooracle.ConnectOracle.main(ConnectOracle.java:67)

I am accessing data from food table by Toad . THen why am I getting this error in java ?

My full code is :

public class ConnectOracle {

 public static void main(String[] args) {

  String driver = "oracle.jdbc.driver.OracleDriver"; //

  String serverName = "10.11.201.84";
  String portNumber = "1521";
  String db = "XE";
  String url = "jdbc:oracle:thin:@" + serverName + ":" + portNumber + ":"
    + db; // connectOracle is the data
  // source name
  String user = "ORAP"; // username of oracle database
  String pwd = "ORAP"; // password of oracle database
  Connection con = null;
  ServerSocket serverSocket = null;
  Socket socket = null;
  DataInputStream dataInputStream = null;
  DataOutputStream dataOutputStream = null;

  try {
   Class.forName(driver);// for loading the jdbc driver

   System.out.println("JDBC Driver loaded");

   con = DriverManager.getConnection(url, user, pwd);// for
                // establishing
   // connection
   // with database
   Statement stmt = (Statement) con.createStatement();

   serverSocket = new ServerSocket(8888);
   System.out.println("Listening :8888");

   while (true) {
    try {

     socket = serverSocket.accept();
     System.out.println("Connection Created");
     dataInputStream = new DataInputStream(
       socket.getInputStream());
     dataOutputStream = new DataOutputStream(
       socket.getOutputStream());
     System.out.println("ip: " + socket.getInetAddress());
     // System.out.println("message: " +
     // dataInputStream.readUTF());

     ResultSet res=stmt.executeQuery("select * from food");
     while(res.next()){
      System.out.println(res.getString(1));
     }

    } catch (IOException e) {
     // TODO Auto-generated catch block
     e.printStackTrace();
    }

    if (dataInputStream != null) {
     try {
      dataInputStream.close();
     } catch (IOException e) {
      // TODO Auto-generated catch block
      e.printStackTrace();
     }
    }

    if (dataOutputStream != null) {
     try {
      dataOutputStream.close();
     } catch (IOException e) {
      // TODO Auto-generated catch block
      e.printStackTrace();
     }
    }
   }
  } catch (Exception e) {
   // TODO Auto-generated catch block
   e.printStackTrace();
  }
 }
}

if table is exist on your db, then check your db connection in your app — Mohammadreza Khatami
have you check your db connection info ?! maybe you have wrong info to connect or you have multiple connections, for example one connection to oracle and another connection to mysql ! — Mohammadreza Khatami

Y.E. Y.E. · Accepted Answer · 2016-04-28T10:18:28

If your table is located under schema A:

select * from A.food

EDIT

If you can login via TOAD with user ORAP and execute the same query (select * from food) then you definitely have the table in ORAP schema. I see no reason for "select * from ORAP.food" to fail.

java.sql.SQLSyntaxErrorException: ORA-00942: table or view does not exist

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