Re: I can't have "group" as a column name in a table?

[João Cândido de Souza Neto]

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> On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 12:06 PM, Dave M G <dave@stripped> wrote:
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>> 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.
>
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