>From: Dave K [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Friday, April 19, 2002 3:47 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Keyword "date" instigating error
>
>Not sure about other RDBMs but Oracle allows:
>create table nonos("date" date, "More bad things" varchar2(20));
>but the columns with 'bad' name can only be accessed the same way ie
>select "date", "More bad things"
>from nonos;

It would be nice if there was something like:  my @quote_these = $dbh->reserved_words;
I ran into this with CSV a while back, where TEXT was a reserved word in CSV but not 
in Oracle.

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