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Informix Error -33055: The name id-name has already been used.

Cause and resolution

The name id-name has already been used.

The SQL identifier id-name has already been declared. Check the spelling of names and the declarations in the current name scope.

Oninit® Troubleshooting Guidance

Reasons / Common Causes

-33055 fires when an SQL identifier is declared a second time in the current name scope — per the official guidance.

  1. An identifier redeclared within the same name scope, per the official guidance — the direct, only cause.
Solutions / Resolution
  1. Check the spelling of names and the declarations in the current scope, per the official guidance, and rename the duplicate.
Examples
N/A

No specific triggering statement is documented beyond a duplicate identifier declaration.

Diagnostic Checks
  1. Check the current name scope for a duplicate declaration of the flagged identifier.
Related Errors / Related Topics
  • -33050 — "The type or subtype type-name has already been used." A related already-declared error, specific to types/subtypes rather than general identifiers.

An SQL identifier was declared twice in the current scope — rename the duplicate.