I am interested in the terminology for the characters you can put around table names, column names, etc. when referencing them in a query. A name that in Microsoft SQL Server would be for []
s and in MySQL would be for ``
s or possibly ""
s.
I am unable to find a generic term for them anywhere and am wondering if one exists.
Best Answer
"I think" this is what you are referring to:
Delimited Identifiers
https://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms176027(v=sql.105).aspx
T-SQL Naming Conventions
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/t-sql/language-elements/transact-sql-syntax-conventions-transact-sql