ORA-00911: invalid character - When running SQL dump - sql

Question

I have a bunch of SQL which I need to execute, but Oracle is complaining with this error:
Error Message : ORA-00911: invalid character
Position : 27
Statement : (dump below)
I'm not sure what's causing this. I have tried removing the semicolon at the end as some answers suggested, but that's not doing the trick. I'm attempting to run this SQL dump on Laravel 5.2 with the DB::unprepared() method, like so:
DB::connection('oracle')->unprepared(File::get(base_path('/path/to/oracle_dump.sql')));
This is the SQL I'm trying to run:
DROP TABLE "MYUSERNAME"."POSTS";
DROP SEQUENCE "MYUSERNAME"."POST_SEQ";
CREATE TABLE POSTS
(
ID NUMBER(*, 0) NOT NULL, TITLE VARCHAR2(1000 BYTE), CONSTRAINT SYS_C004109 PRIMARY KEY(ID)
USING INDEX
(
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX SYS_C004109 ON POSTS (ID ASC)
LOGGING
TABLESPACE TEST_TABLSPACE
PCTFREE 10
INITRANS 2
STORAGE
(
INITIAL 65536
NEXT 1048576
MINEXTENTS 1
MAXEXTENTS UNLIMITED
BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT
)
NOPARALLEL
)
ENABLE
)
LOGGING
TABLESPACE TEST_TABLSPACE
PCTFREE 10
INITRANS 1
STORAGE
(
INITIAL 65536
NEXT 1048576
MINEXTENTS 1
MAXEXTENTS UNLIMITED
BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT
)
NOPARALLEL
CREATE SEQUENCE POST_SEQ INCREMENT BY 1 MAXVALUE 9999999999999999999999999999 MINVALUE 1 CACHE 20
CREATE TRIGGER POST_BIR
BEFORE INSERT ON posts
FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN
SELECT post_seq.NEXTVAL
INTO :new.id
FROM dual;
END;
I have used SQLDeveloper on Mac to get this dump.

Answer 1

You should use ";" after each statement in the file "oracle_dump.sql".
DROP TABLE "MYUSERNAME"."POSTS";
DROP SEQUENCE "MYUSERNAME"."POST_SEQ";
CREATE TABLE POSTS
(
ID NUMBER(*, 0) NOT NULL, TITLE VARCHAR2(1000 BYTE), CONSTRAINT SYS_C004109 PRIMARY KEY(ID)
USING INDEX
(
CREATE UNIQUE INDEX SYS_C004109 ON POSTS (ID ASC)
LOGGING
TABLESPACE TEST_TABLSPACE
PCTFREE 10
INITRANS 2
STORAGE
(
INITIAL 65536
NEXT 1048576
MINEXTENTS 1
MAXEXTENTS UNLIMITED
BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT
)
NOPARALLEL
)
ENABLE
)
LOGGING
TABLESPACE TEST_TABLSPACE
PCTFREE 10
INITRANS 1
STORAGE
(
INITIAL 65536
NEXT 1048576
MINEXTENTS 1
MAXEXTENTS UNLIMITED
BUFFER_POOL DEFAULT
)
NOPARALLEL;
CREATE SEQUENCE POST_SEQ INCREMENT BY 1 MAXVALUE 9999999999999999999999999999 MINVALUE 1 CACHE 20;
CREATE TRIGGER POST_BIR
BEFORE INSERT ON posts
FOR EACH ROW
BEGIN
SELECT post_seq.NEXTVAL
INTO :new.id
FROM dual;
END;

Answer 2

Try executing each statement in a separate file, and do not close the statement with ";" once you have each in its file
You have 5 statement in the file "oracle_dump.sql". Have a separate file for each if you want to run them using a command like:
DB::connection('oracle')->unprepared(File::get(base_path('/path/to/<<file>>')));