check quote and quote_identifier method.
________________________________ From: Anthony Gerhardt <sirballsw...@gmail.com> To: dbi-users@perl.org Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 2:10 PM Subject: Unable to Query Column With Same Name as Keyword I've got a query in Sybase IQ 15.1: SET quoted_identifier on SELECT col."default" FROM systabcol col Which runs fine in my query tool (QTODBC 70). However the same query in PerlDBI is return an error: DBD::Sybase::db selectcol_arrayref failed: Server message number=102 severity=15 state=0 line=0 text=SQL Anywhere Error -131: Syntax error near 'default' on line 2 [for Statement " SET quoted_identifier on SELECT col."default" FROM systabcol col "] I've also tried \"default\".