> I have inherited an access db upsized to SQL7 that has some nasty column
> names, obviously won't ouput in CF without an alias. However is formating
> the SQL statement using a single quote returns the literal string
> within the
> quote and using a backtick to set it off generates an error in CF. So how
> does one specify the target column name for an alias?
>
> ex
>
> SELECT `home phone` AS PHONE
> FROM EMPLOYEE
> or
> SELECT `TBR@40` AS TBR
> FROM EMPLOYEE
> produce a syntax error and
>
> SELECT 'home phone' AS PHONE
> FROM EMPLOYEE
>
> produces 'home phone' in the field instead of the number
Use square brackets, otherwise it's a string...
SELECT [home phone] as Phone
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