Question

I am using pivot function in SQL Server.

My select is built dynamically and uses pivot function.

Since the are a lot of guid in the values I use “as” and assign it a name – (it would be easy to maintain it if I give the columns that are generated from attribute values new names.)

But the values include ., space, -, + and other illegal characters. Is there a way to contain those characters?

Here is a simple example :

string s = 
" select MyColumn as My Attribute
  from MyTable My Table "

where My Attribute and My Table are generated names

Answer 1

Enclose those names in square brackets:

string s = 
" SELECT MyColumn AS [My Attribute]
  FROM MyTable [My Table] "