On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 12:26:51PM -0700, YI,LI (HP-USA,ex1) wrote:
> Hi,
>
> In my case, some of tables are created according to people's name, e.g.
>
> when user adds new name: firstname lastname
> it should create table in background => firstname_lastname
>
> But problem occurs when user name contains ', e.g. firstname's lastname, I
> had it encoded first, java.net.URLEncoder.encode(firstname's lastname) which
> turn to => firstname%27s_lastname, but it still gives error because of %.
>
You can use back-quotes around table and field names. I believe it
allows you to use any characters for these names. E.g.
create table `John O'Reilly` ( ... );
The problem with this is that the mysql command line client doesn't
treat back-quotes as quoting characters, making ad-hoc queries with
this tool impossible on certain names. This alone may be enough
reason to look for another naming scheme for your tables.
Can't you use a single table with an extra field for the user name
or id? Or does each table have a unique structure?
Regards,
Fred.
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