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["Thompson, Bill D (London)" <bill_d_thompson AT ml.com>]

Its only in TDS 7.0 (for SQL) that we need to send the table desciption
as part of the bcp init syntax.
So the square brackets are safe.

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Patches item #1106465, was opened at 2005-01-21 04:45
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Category: db-lib
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Paul Rensing (prensing)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: quote column names for bcp

Initial Comment:
With TDS version 7.0 and higher, bcp fetches the table
column names and then sends them back to the DB when
setting up the bcp transfer (in the "INSERT BULK"
statement). The problem occurs if you have spaces in
your column names; the column names are not quoted in
any way and the server gets confused.

Turns out (at least on MS SQLserver) that the way to
quote the column names is to use square brackets ("[",
"]"), not quotes. The patch modifies bcp.c to always
quote column names. 

I have tested this against our MS SQLServer 2000. I
don't have any other system to test.

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>Comment By: Frediano Ziglio (freddy77)
Date: 2005-01-21 08:44

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The patch it's a bit out dated. Perhaps it would be better
for backport 0.64 code to 0.63. Note that quote are not
compatible with sybase and do not works if column name
contains ']' character.

freddy77

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Comment By: Paul Rensing (prensing)
Date: 2005-01-21 04:47

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Sorry. Forgot to say: the patch was against version 0.62.4.

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