T.D.,
Thursday, May 16, 2002, 6:54:45 PM, you wrote:
TDH> I am working with a mySQL database in which some column names contain
TDH> hyphens. These have to be enclosed in backquotes (`table-name1) within
TDH> SQL statements.
TDH> Problem: when generating its own SQL statements, mysqldump does not
TDH> enclose these names in backquotes -- so when I try to restore a database
TDH> from a dump file, I get SQL errors.
TDH> Does anyone have a simple solution? If not, might future versions of
TDH> mysqldump allow such fields to be backquoted?
Use --quote-names option of mysqldump. Look at:
http://www.mysql.com/doc/m/y/mysqldump.html
TDH> T.D. Houfek
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