diff --git a/src/providers/oracle/qgsoracleprovider.cpp b/src/providers/oracle/qgsoracleprovider.cpp
index 18af214d8f24..5060bc969def 100644
--- a/src/providers/oracle/qgsoracleprovider.cpp
+++ b/src/providers/oracle/qgsoracleprovider.cpp
@@ -3093,8 +3093,8 @@ QgsVectorLayerExporter::ExportError QgsOracleProvider::createEmptyLayer(
       }
     }
 
-    if ( !exec( qry, QString( "INSERT INTO mdsys.user_sdo_geom_metadata(table_name,column_name,srid,diminfo) VALUES (?,?,?,?)" ),
-                QVariantList() << tableName.toUpper() << geometryColumn.toUpper() << srid << diminfo ) )
+    if ( !exec( qry, QStringLiteral( "INSERT INTO mdsys.user_sdo_geom_metadata(table_name,column_name,srid,diminfo) VALUES (?,?,?,%1)" ).arg( diminfo ),
+                QVariantList() << tableName.toUpper() << geometryColumn.toUpper() << srid ) )
     {
       throw OracleException( tr( "Could not insert metadata." ), qry );
     }
diff --git a/tests/src/python/test_provider_oracle.py b/tests/src/python/test_provider_oracle.py
index 149059919b8c..d1f2447ae006 100644
--- a/tests/src/python/test_provider_oracle.py
+++ b/tests/src/python/test_provider_oracle.py
@@ -24,7 +24,10 @@
     QgsFeature,
     QgsGeometry,
     QgsWkbTypes,
-    QgsDataProvider
+    QgsDataProvider,
+    QgsVectorLayerExporter,
+    QgsFields,
+    QgsCoordinateReferenceSystem
 )
 
 from qgis.PyQt.QtCore import QDate, QTime, QDateTime, QVariant
@@ -819,6 +822,21 @@ def testEvaluateDefaultValues(self):
         attributes = [feat.attributes() for feat in vl.getFeatures()]
         self.assertEqual(attributes, [[1, 'qgis'], [2, 'test'], [3, 'qgis'], [4, 'test']])
 
+    def testCreateEmptyLayer(self):
+        uri = self.dbconn + "srid=4326 type=POINT table=\"EMPTY_LAYER\" (GEOM)"
+        exporter = QgsVectorLayerExporter(uri=uri, provider='oracle', fields=QgsFields(), geometryType=QgsWkbTypes.Point, crs=QgsCoordinateReferenceSystem(4326), overwrite=True)
+        self.assertEqual(exporter.errorCount(), 0)
+        self.assertEqual(exporter.errorCode(), 0)
+        # check IF there is an empty table (will throw error if the EMPTY_LAYER table does not excist)
+        self.execSQLCommand('SELECT count(*) FROM "QGIS"."EMPTY_LAYER"')
+        vl = QgsVectorLayer(
+            self.dbconn + ' sslmode=disable table="QGIS"."EMPTY_LAYER" sql=',
+            'test', 'oracle')
+        self.assertTrue(vl.isValid())
+        # cleanup
+        self.execSQLCommand('DROP TABLE "QGIS"."EMPTY_LAYER"')
+        self.execSQLCommand("DELETE FROM user_sdo_geom_metadata  where TABLE_NAME='EMPTY_LAYER'")
+
 
 if __name__ == '__main__':
     unittest.main()