Subject | Re: [firebird-support] Upper case behaviour |
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Author | Ann W. Harrison |
Post date | 2007-12-05T16:22:14Z |
Geoff Worboys wrote:
which can be regular or delimited.
Regular identifiers contain characters from a limited subset of
Unicode, which excludes white space characters. Comparisons
between regular identifiers are case-insensitive and are performed
as if each lower-case character were replaced by its upper-case
equivalent(s).
Delimited identifiers are surrounded by double quotes, may
contain any character though some require escapes, may be
SQL keywords, and are case sensitive.
Cheers,
Ann
>Actually, no they're not. They're defined to have identifiers
> Firebird and SQL are actually defined to have case-sensitive
> names,
which can be regular or delimited.
Regular identifiers contain characters from a limited subset of
Unicode, which excludes white space characters. Comparisons
between regular identifiers are case-insensitive and are performed
as if each lower-case character were replaced by its upper-case
equivalent(s).
Delimited identifiers are surrounded by double quotes, may
contain any character though some require escapes, may be
SQL keywords, and are case sensitive.
Cheers,
Ann