Re: What character are valid in the name of a table?

From: Shakespeare <whatsin_at_xs4all.nl>
Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:55:09 +0200
Message-ID: <4ab8d735$0$83235$e4fe514c_at_news.xs4all.nl>



Mark D Powell schreef:
> On Sep 21, 6:29 pm, Phil Herring <phil_herr..._at_yahoo.com.au> wrote:
>> On Sep 22, 12:30 am, Mark D Powell <Mark.Pow..._at_eds.com> wrote:
>>
>>> You will also create a nightmare for maintenance.  I strongly suggest
>>> sticking to the use of A - Z, 0 - 9, and underscore to all database
>>> object names.  [&c.]
>> Sure. And Oracle recommend sticking to ASCII. And I get pretty annoyed
>> with people who use mixed case where it isn't appropriate. I've even
>> inherited code (I think it originated in a SQL Server system) that had
>> spaces in table and column names. Irritating.
>>
>> However, if the question is "What characters are valid?", the answer
>> is still: "anything you can type with the keyboard in front of you".
>>
>> -- Phil

>
> My answer was directed to the serious adverse consequences of not
> sticking to the standard non-quoted identifiers as detailed in the SQL
> manual, which you had said were technically valid. It is a very bad
> idea.
>
> IMHO -- Mark D Powell --

alt-003 may have very surprising effects for some tools!

Shakespeare Received on Tue Sep 22 2009 - 08:55:09 CDT

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