The best comparison I´ve never seen in my life was the TNT. LOL
-- João Cândido de Souza Neto "Johan De Meersman" <vegiv...@tuxera.be> escreveu na mensagem news:AANLkTikPeVuTpj9E0iepFncCJZQOF6sn_dbrhp0=p...@mail.gmail.com... > On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Dave M G <d...@articlass.org> wrote: > >> Should I never use the word "group" for column names? Seems a little >> silly. Is there a way to protect column names to that there is no >> confusion? >> > > As several people already pointed out, simply use backticks. Simple quotes > have started to work in more and more places in newer versions of MySQL. > > However, it is considered bad form to name columns for reserved words - > even > ones as obvious as "group" or "index". Bad form in the same way that you > wouldn't name any variables "define" or "if" while programming; or in a > very > similar way that you wouldn't put a box of TNT next to a burning candle - > it's an accident waiting to happen. > > The escapes are there in case an upgrade creates new reserved words that > you've already used in column names - "partition" comes to mind - but if > you > are still in a phase where you can avoid using reserved words, please > spare > yourself and others a lot of trouble and do so; even if only because while > you can fix your code, you can't fix someone else's - think management > tools, backup scripts, whatever may touch the db in the future. > > > -- > Bier met grenadyn > Is als mosterd by den wyn > Sy die't drinkt, is eene kwezel > Hy die't drinkt, is ras een ezel > -- MySQL General Mailing List For list archives: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql To unsubscribe: http://lists.mysql.com/mysql?unsub=arch...@jab.org
