Subject | Re: [ib-support] [] or "" |
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Author | Woody |
Post date | 2001-10-23T17:28:21Z |
From: "Paul Schmidt" <paul@...>
simply stating the difference when using the two. I would like to see a
case-insensitive way of using delimiters around field or table names if only
to allow additional characters to be used in the names. I don't want it to
take literally, the case of the letters, just have a way to distinguish that
it has special characters in it.
Woody
> > Since this is a M$-only thing, we don't need to support this onI wasn't advovating MS's method of using brackets over using quotes. I was
> > Firebird or Interbase. Let's follow the SQL way and ride the road.
> >
>
> I agree, for several reasons:
>
> 1) We still have official SQL standards to implement from SQL-99
>
> 2) We have better things to do, like implementing server side
> aliases, and replacing the services API with something that makes
> sense, and hopefully can be done with SQL.
>
> 3) Microsoft has a habit of changing the "standards" they define,
> just ask a VB6 programmer what they think of VB.Net!
>
simply stating the difference when using the two. I would like to see a
case-insensitive way of using delimiters around field or table names if only
to allow additional characters to be used in the names. I don't want it to
take literally, the case of the letters, just have a way to distinguish that
it has special characters in it.
Woody