AFAIK, it's just another M$ Standard. The real SQL way is
with double quotes. (Anyway, this [] thing I think is very more
readable than the quotes... Just a question of taste).

[]s Fabricio

On Fri, 19 Oct 2001 15:11:08 +0100, lester@... wrote:

>I have just been dumped with a load of Mucrosoft Developer
>Network stuff including the XP releases, and on looking
>through the notes, I found some interesting comments on the
>'SQL Standards' for table and field names.
>
>Mucrosoft seem to be suggesting that using [] around table
>and field names is the correct way of hadling names with
>spaces.
>
>Is this just another 'Mucrosoft Standard' or have I missed
>something on the standards front?
>
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[]s Fabricio
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