The colon is mostly used to declare a parameter at the
client side and used in the PSQL language.

Using a colon in object names is a bit weird and I cannot
remember any database engine (Oracle/MSSQL/MySQL
etc) that happily accepts them.

With regards,

Martijn Tonies
Database Workbench - developer tool for InterBase, Firebird, MySQL & MS SQL
Server.
Upscene Productions
http://www.upscene.com

> Any other gotchas with file names etc?
> JVZ.
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> Hi
> Just as a quick note to anyone testing with Firebird. I have never
> tried this in the past, but I've recently (in the last year) gone to
> using colon's (:) in my Field names. Well, Firebird doesn't really like
> this a whole lot (think it may be the ODBC driver). So, I suggest you
> don't use them just to make your life a little easier. Just a friendly
> message :)
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