Dear friends,
I am new to Unix/Linux. I am trying to run following query but getting an error msg... Please can u people help me in this?

Query:
echo "select status_ac from db_acct where acct_num=AAA000337" | dbaccess elstest

Error:
217: Column (amd000337) not found in any table in the query (or SLV is undefined).



And if i provide acct_num a complete numeric value then getting following error
Error:
1213: Character to numeric conversion error

Cheched everything, i mean checked name of table, colomn and acct_num. Its perfect.

Please help me guys

Thanx in advance
Anushree.