In the last episode (Feb 18), Ayyapraju Ganapathiraju said:
> I need to create a table named "Case", but MySQL is rejecting it, may
> be because it is a reserved word. I understand that I can change the
> name to something sensible. Is there still a way to create a table
> with such names, for example, by enclosing them in double quotes. I
> would like to use such names for compatibility reasons with other
> database we are currently using.

You can quote reserved words by enclosing them in backtics: `Case`

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        Dan Nelson
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