diff --git a/lib/tokenize.cpp b/lib/tokenize.cpp
index 0acfb56f8..eddc96765 100644
--- a/lib/tokenize.cpp
+++ b/lib/tokenize.cpp
@@ -1701,6 +1701,30 @@ bool Tokenizer::tokenize(std::istream &code, const char FileName[], const std::s
 
     createTokens(code);
 
+
+    // remove inline SQL (Oracle PRO*C). Ticket: #1959
+    for (Token *tok = _tokens; tok; tok = tok->next())
+    {
+        if (Token::simpleMatch(tok, "EXEC SQL"))
+        {
+            // delete all tokens until ";"
+            while (tok && tok->str() != ";")
+                tok->deleteThis();
+
+            // insert "asm ( ) ;"
+            if (tok)
+            {
+                tok->insertToken("asm");
+                tok = tok->next();
+                tok->insertToken("(");
+                tok = tok->next();
+                tok->insertToken(")");
+                tok = tok->next();
+                tok->insertToken(";");
+            }
+        }
+    }
+
     if (!createLinks())
     {
         // Source has syntax errors, can't proceed
diff --git a/test/testtokenize.cpp b/test/testtokenize.cpp
index 823f9bbc8..420cfb08b 100644
--- a/test/testtokenize.cpp
+++ b/test/testtokenize.cpp
@@ -258,6 +258,8 @@ private:
         TEST_CASE(bitfields5); // ticket #1956
 
         TEST_CASE(microsoftMFC);
+
+        TEST_CASE(sql);
     }
 
 
@@ -4610,6 +4612,15 @@ private:
         const char code4[] = "class MyDialog : public CDialog { DECLARE_DYNAMIC_CLASS(MyDialog) private: CString text; };";
         ASSERT_EQUALS("class MyDialog : public CDialog { private: CString text ; } ;", tokenizeAndStringify(code4,false));
     }
+
+    void sql()
+    {
+        // Oracle PRO*C extensions for inline SQL. Just replace the SQL with "asm()" to fix wrong error messages
+        // ticket: #1959
+        const char code1[] = "; EXEC SQL SELECT A FROM B;";
+        ASSERT_EQUALS("; ; asm ( ) ;", tokenizeAndStringify(code1,false));
+
+    }
 };
 
 REGISTER_TEST(TestTokenizer)