I made an inline view and then created a Merge Statement using the inline view. Oracle gave an error message that the select statement was missing even though there was a reference to the inline view in the Using Clause of the Merge Statement. Is there a syntax way around this or am I going to need to make an Oracle View out of the inline View. When this goes production I don't mind making an Oracle View, but during the testing it would be nice to be able to do this inline. Am I stuck with making a Oracle View? This gets into turn around(s) with the DBA which I had hoped to avoid.