Yup - can't do this without changing the code, sorry.
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I have a project, which used MySQL 4.0 as the database. I need to upgrade this to MySQL 5.0. I faced a problem with the new reserved words added to MySQL 5.0.
I have a table with name "condition". But as MySQL 5.0 is treating condition as reserved word, all the queries whcih use this table are failing. I search for the solution and found that backtild will solve the problem i.e. using `condition` wherever we use condition table. But to change this I need to do a lot of changes to the code and for some places, I am not expected to change the implementation. Do I have any solution which do not change the existing code but escapes the reserved words? I also need to escape the column names of some tables (for example, the column name "loop" needs to be changed).
Thanks in advance.
Ravi
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by: hernst42Posted on 2007-06-14 at 04:18:07ID: 19282296
You will need to change your code to make this work within mysql 5.0. It's always the best to use ` around fieldnames and tablenames when coding for mysql. It can save you a lot of troubles.