On Saturday 16 March 2002 13:08, Philip J. Newman wrote:
> A few of us folk at PhilipNZ.com would like to know about using " and ' or
> ` in My Sql when calling information from the database.
>
> we have always used
>
> $sql = "SELECT * FROM `hyperlinks` ORDER BY `clicks` DESC LIMIT 0, 10";
>
> but where told that the ` was not required
>
> $sql = "SELECT * FROM hyperlinks ORDER BY clicks DESC LIMIT 0, 10";
>
> Any Comments on this?
Yes, this should be posted to php-db.
For simple cases ` ` are not needed. It is only used if your column names
contain weird characters, spaces for instance, then:
SELECT `First Name` FROM Address;
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