| Andy Hassall 2006-02-27, 6:59 pm |
| On Mon, 27 Feb 2006 22:51:19 GMT, "Tony Peardon" <rWorldDesigns@yahoo.ca>
wrote:
>Hi all. I've noticed people encasing their table and column names within
>quotes. Whats up with that? my db seems to be working ok so far without
>them, so what are they for? Should I be doing the same?
No. You only need `` around table and column names if they have spaces or in
them, or clash with reserved words.
You should only use `` if you need it.
But if you need to use ``, your table or column is named wrongly, and should
be renamed so you don't need to use ``.
(And the standard way to quote weird table/column names is with double quotes
anyway - backticks are MySQL-specific.)
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