Comments on: SQL Mode ANSI_QUOTES http://www.pythian.com/blogs/1085/sql-mode-ansi_quotes News and views from Pythian DBAs Thu, 4 Dec 2008 23:13:48 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Roland Bouman http://www.pythian.com/blogs/1085/sql-mode-ansi_quotes#comment-223502 Roland Bouman Tue, 24 Jun 2008 06:26:17 +0000 http://www.pythian.com/blogs/1085/sql-mode-ansi_quotes#comment-223502 "Normally the functionality of double quotes is more like that of single quotes (’)." Normal for my MySQL yes, not the rest of the DB world, or perhaps maybe MS Access. "one of the more annoying things about Oracle is that I keep forgetting I can’t use “, only ‘" Heh, for me it is the other way around ;) Anyway, I used to have it in my default SQL mode, and it is incredible how many applications break. App developers, pls always use single quotes for your strings, and backticks for your MySQL quoted identifiers. “Normally the functionality of double quotes is more like that of single quotes (’).”

Normal for my MySQL yes, not the rest of the DB world, or perhaps maybe MS Access.

“one of the more annoying things about Oracle is that I keep forgetting I can’t use “, only ‘”

Heh, for me it is the other way around ;)

Anyway, I used to have it in my default SQL mode, and it is incredible how many applications break. App developers, pls always use single quotes for your strings, and backticks for your MySQL quoted identifiers.

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