Re: reserved words

steve wrote:

> my VOX has many years of X behind it. and, while i tend to stay away from
> using reserved words, when your X begins to work with homogenous systems,
> i.e. ms sql server, oracle, terra-data, etc. you'll quickly find you can't
> avoid stepping on someone's "reserved" toes...you'll also find that you make
> it a common practice to escape all of your columns and tables to avoid such
> a mess.

In this case, you are stepping on ANSI toes.

BTW - my X has included most of those systems, and more, for slightly over 20 years. In many homogeneous as well as heterogeneous combinations. And never once have I needed to trample a reserved keyword.

Your choice - I don't need to support it <g> Received on Wed Jul 23 2003 - 22:26:42 CDT