From: Peter Brawley
Date: August 28 2008 12:14pm
Subject: Re: escape a dash in table name
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 >How do you escape a dash in a table name such as temp-08-08-28?

Best not to use them at all. If you must for some odd reason, use 
backticks round the name.

PB

Dan O'Keefe wrote:
> How do you escape a dash in a table name such as temp-08-08-28?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan
>
>