Question

Below is a snippet of my code, when a table name contains a hyphen, I get the error below. How can I fix this? Thanks for the help.

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ex = {“ERROR [42000] [Microsoft][ODBC SQL Server Driver][SQL Server]Line 1: Incorrect syntax near ‘-‘.”}

Answer 1

Use [] round the column name:

CREATE TABLE [test2] 
(cn VarChar(1024) NULL,
 [tutor-id] VarChar(1024) NULL)

Or preferably stick to column names which don’t require special treatment…

Note that it’s a column name which has a hyphen, not the table name.