Stefan Ram schreef op 13/12/2022 om 8:42:
"John K. Parejko" <parej...@gmail.com> writes:
>I was just burned by this, where some tests I’d written
>against an sqlite database did not fail in the way that they
>“should” have, because of this double-quoted string issue.

   In standard SQL, double quotes denote identifiers that are
   allowed to contain special characters.
Or that are equal SQL keywords, which can be a reason to double-quote them. SQL engines sometimes add new keywords; explicitly marking string literals as string literals prevents future conflicts and confusion.

Perhaps it's a better idea to use [identifier] or `identifier` instead though (I just learned about those on https://sqlite.org/lang_keywords.html). Both are not standard SQL ([] is used in MS Access and SQL Server, `` is used in MySQL) but both work in SQLite. That should prevent any ambiguity and confusion, if it doesn't bother you too much that it's not standard SQL.

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