Keyword delimiters

[Randy Lane]

Are there any characters or symbols that reserved keywords can be
enclosed with in Oracle (9i) to prevent them from being interpreted as
control statements or functions?
MSSQL has this functionality with "[]".
For example, in MSSQL, this statement returns an error :

SELECT NameLine1 AS Name FROM database1

But this one does not :

SELECT NameLine1 AS [Name] FROM database1

Does Oracle have any way to accomplish this?

[mcstock]

select nameline1 as "Name" from ...

This tells oracle to take the object name as is (object being a table,
column, column alias, etc.)

This makes it possible to do stuff like (note that you'd really want to, and
it adds no extra security):

SQL> create table "Randy Lane" ( acolumn number );

Table created.

SQL> select * from Randy Lane;
select * from Randy Lane
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00942: table or view does not exist
SQL> select * from "randy lane";
select * from "randy lane"
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-00942: table or view does not exist
SQL> select * from "Randy Lane";

no rows selected

(by the way, I grew up on Randy Drive in Livonia, Michigan -- I presume
there's no relation)
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Are there any characters or symbols that reserved keywords can be
enclosed with in Oracle (9i) to prevent them from being interpreted as
control statements or functions?
MSSQL has this functionality with "[]".
For example, in MSSQL, this statement returns an error :

SELECT NameLine1 AS Name FROM database1

But this one does not :

SELECT NameLine1 AS [Name] FROM database1

Does Oracle have any way to accomplish this?