I have a SQL Server 2005 legacy database which has a table named user

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I have a SQL Server 2005 legacy database which has a table named user

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I have a SQL Server 2005 legacy database which has a table named user and a model User which maps to the ‘user’ table.

‘user’ is a reserved word in Sql Server, so I need ActiveRecord to quote/bracket the table name in queries as

Select u.* from [user] where [user].[Id] = 1

the default is

Select u.* from user where user.[Id] = 1

which fails due to the reserve word conflict.

How do I inform rails to use use either the standard quoted identifiers or bracketed identifiers to delimit reserved words and/or spaces in table names?

Rails Models

class User < UserBase
  set_primary_key "Id"
  set_table_name "user"

end

class UserBase < ActiveRecord::Base
  establish_connection "tums_#{[Rails.env]}"
  self.abstract_class = true
end