Beuserie, Tuesday, October 22, 2002, 8:15:33 PM, you wrote: BF> i'm in process of migrating from a commercial dbms to mysql and BF> have legacy tables referenced everywhere with names like 'tbl1#c' --> '#' is not accepted for table names and must be escaped to create BF> one (but dissapeared from the table name then) BF> is there a way to use such table names ?
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