> CREATE TABLE ex$1( col$abc INTEGER ); > > are legal and work fine in other database engines. > This seems very odd to me. Can anybody else > confirm the use of '$' in the middle of identifier > names in other database engines?
Seems to work OK in both permanent and temporary tables in SQL Server 2000. But I gotta what that adds to readability. I'm tempted to say "Yuck!", but somebody will undoubtedly come up with a reasonable reason for using that type of name.
