error: ORA-65096: invalid common user or role name in oracle

Question

I just installed Oracle, and it was missing the Scott schema. So i am trying to generate it myself. I got the sql script of Scott schema, but when i try to run the

Answer 1

Might be, more safe alternative to "_ORACLE_SCRIPT"=true is to change "_common_user_prefix" from C## to an empty string. When it's null - any name can be used for common user. Found there.

During changing that value you may face another issue - ORA-02095 - parameter cannot be modified, that can be fixed in a several ways, based on your configuration (source).

So for me worked that:

alter system set _common_user_prefix = ''; scope=spfile;