On Nov 13, 11:26 am, Bill Marcum <marcumb...@bellsouth.net> wrote:

> A backslash on the first EOF would prevent expansion of shell variables
> or wildcards in the here document. Apparently that was not your
> problem.

No ... the problem (I think) is with the single quotes in the sql
statement:
select tname from tab where tname like 'MYTABLE'

Thanks anyway ... The information about the backslash is useful non-
the-less :-)