EXEC keyword

b_naick

I am in the process of importing an Oracle database into SQL Server.
Once of the tables has a field called "EXEC".

SQL Server seems to reject any queries that include that particular
field because EXEC is a keyword. For eg.

SELECT ID, EXEC from USERS

results in a syntax error near keyword EXEC.

I can't change the fieldname becuase it will require reworking of a
whole bunch of scripts.

What can I do to adjust the query?

Bijoy

Aug 12 '05 #1

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Simon Hayes

You can use square brackets as delimiters:

select [EXEC] from ...

See "Delimited Identifiers" and "Using Identifiers" in Books Online for
more information.

Simon

Aug 12 '05 #2

Steen Persson \(DK\)

Try

SELECT [ID], [EXEC] FROM Users

Regards
Steen

b_*****@yahoo.ca wrote:

I am in the process of importing an Oracle database into SQL Server.
Once of the tables has a field called "EXEC".

SQL Server seems to reject any queries that include that particular
field because EXEC is a keyword. For eg.

SELECT ID, EXEC from USERS

results in a syntax error near keyword EXEC.

I can't change the fieldname becuase it will require reworking of a
whole bunch of scripts.

What can I do to adjust the query?

Bijoy

Aug 12 '05 #3

Erland Sommarskog

(b_*****@yahoo.ca) writes:

I am in the process of importing an Oracle database into SQL Server.
Once of the tables has a field called "EXEC".

SQL Server seems to reject any queries that include that particular
field because EXEC is a keyword. For eg.

SELECT ID, EXEC from USERS

results in a syntax error near keyword EXEC.

I can't change the fieldname becuase it will require reworking of a
whole bunch of scripts.

What can I do to adjust the query?

Rather than using [] as suggested in other posts, "" may be better.

SELECT ID, "EXEC" FROM USERS

[] is usually preferred on SQL Server. However, that is proprietary syntax,
whereas quoting with "" is ANSI-compliant, and may thus work on Oracle as
well.
--
Erland Sommarskog, SQL Server MVP, es****@sommarskog.se

Books Online for SQL Server SP3 at
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/techinf...2000/books.asp

Aug 12 '05 #4

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