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  • From: Brian Bruns <camber AT ais.org>
  • To: TDS Development Group <freetds AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: Handling of Sybase column names
  • Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2002 21:00:11 -0500 (EST)


Michael,

Thanks, I replied to myself after a google search ;-)

BTW, what is the proper API way of doing it? It'd be nice to support it.

Brian

On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Michael Peppler wrote:

> Brian Bruns writes:
> > FreeTDS does not manipulation of the SQL text prior to sending it to the
> > server, except in the case of TDS 7.0 an ascii string is converted to
> > unicode when submitted. The content is not changed however.
> >
> > you may want to try something like
> >
> > SELECT "Date" from "Table"
> >
> > and there is a way to turn strict ansi compliance on (escapes me at the
> > moment). But long story short, ANSI defines " and ' as different
> things.
> > ' (single quote) is used for string literals whereas " (double quote) is
> > used for identifiers such as tables/columns with spaces in them, eg
> > SELECT "My Column" FROM "My Table With Spaces in the Name"
> >
> > So double quotes with ansi compliance turned on may work.
>
> For Sybase you normally need to set the "quoted identifier" option for
> the connection.
>
> This can be done at the API level (though I suspect that FreeTDS
> doesn't support this yet), or via a language request:
>
> SET quoted_identifier on
>
> Michael
>
>
> > On Tue, 29 Jan 2002, Shrock, Court wrote:
> >
> > > Here is my problem:
> > >
> > > The database that I need to access has table names that are normally
> > > reserved--ie, "Date", "Bit", etc...I would like to be able to pass the
> query
> > > "SELECT Date FROM Events" or "SELECT * FROM Events ORDER BY Date", but
> the
> > > response acts as though it thinks Date is a function (I know one does
> exist,
> > > but I want to refer to the column name, not the function). I know this
> > > because I get an error about wrong number of parameters with the query
> > > "SELECT Date() FROM Events". Any ideas?
> > >
> > > Does freetds do any manipulating of the query string before it sends
> it to
> > > the server listed in the freetds.conf?
> > >
> > > I can "SELECT * FROM Events" and the Date column is returned, but my
> problem
> > > is that how can one include reference to "Date" in the WHERE, GROUP,
> and
> > > ORDER portions of the query? Incidently, the "SELECT * FROM Events"
> returns
> > > the data that I need--connectivity is not a problem.
> > >
> > > I am accessing the database via PHP-4.1.1/freeTDS-0.53 on linux-2.2.19.
> > >
> > > Many thanks,
> > > Court
> > >
> > >
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