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[nycphp-talk] oracle delimited identifiers

Daniel Convissor danielc at analysisandsolutions.com
Wed Feb 4 14:23:49 EST 2004


Hi Eddy:

On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 12:16:18PM -0700, Nunez, Eddy wrote:
> 
> I'm been working with Oracle a long time.  I have been trying to avoid
> using double quotes for strings.  Single quotes (') works best.
> And, yes, doubling up on the quotes acts as an escape character for them
> in strings.

I'm talking about delimiting table and column names.  Double quotes are
needed for that.  As far as literals (such as strings you're going to
insert into a field), you're right, single quotes are the way to go.

Thanks,

--Dan

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