Moosmann, James wrote:
Lee,
Hello,
The select statement is very valid and so is:
SELECT 'Hello World!' as 'My first SQL Statement' -or- SELECT answer = 2+3
Really, try it.
ok, but if you $dbh->quote() it, it becomes something like:
'SELECT \'Hello World!\' as \'My first SQL Statement\''
literally, but as far as validity, if the statement in question was valid it would return something instead of an error...
Anyway... I was sent the correct answer and was very surprised in that the syntax is indeed valid on some servers, however the ANSI standard is single
I imagine it may be but what does: Invalid column name 'Rows returned: ' mean then?
quotes for all string literals and that these other drivers/servers handled string literals with either single or double quotes on a somewhat random basis...bizzare. Perl DBI thinks any double quoted string must be a column or table name ( [ and ] are preferred, but double quotes are still
really? where did you see that in the docs?
I can: SELECT foo FROM bar WHERE ID="1"; without 1 having to be a column or table name..
acceptable). The problem is that these other apps let the coder use that non-standard syntax and it works. I guess we will have to retrain the folks who generated this stuff.
Yes, Microsoft users are the lamest ;p
