Hello Monks, I was wondering if someone can help me out here. I work on some Reporting scripts and now came across the following Problem. I access a Oracle Database via the DBA Module and while with other statements I have no Problem this particular Table I want to query is called v$sessions. As you can see the Table name got the "$" in the name. With my statement I need somehow to ignore the "$" sign and just parse it as the table name. How can I do that? 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use DBI qw(:sql_types);

my ($SID,$SERIAL,$USERNAME,$STATUS,$SCHEMANAME,$OSUSER,
$PROCESS,$MACHINE,$TERMINAL,$PROGRAM,$TYPE,$MODULE,
$LOGON_TIME,$STATE,$SERVICE_NAME);

my $sql = qq { 
select SID,SERIAL,USERNAME,STATUS,SCHEMANAME,OSUSER,
PROCESS,MACHINE,TERMINAL,PROGRAM,TYPE,MODULE,
to_char(LOGON_TIME,'DD-MON-YY HH24:MI:SS')"LOGON_TIME",
STATE,SERVICE_NAME from v$session order by LOGON_TIME DESC};

my $dbh = DBI->connect($parm,$user,$password, { RaiseError => 1, AutoC
+ommit => 0 });

$sth = $dbh->prepare($sql) or die "Couldn't prepare statement: " . $db
+h->errstr;

$sth->execute() or die "Couldn't execute statement: " . $dbh->errstr;

print "@row\n";

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Thanks for some input

In reply to Ignoring "$" sign in sql-statement to Oracle by gizmojunkee

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