Monday, October 02, 2006

SQL Server Teaser

Here is a quick SQL Server teaser

Create the following table

CREATE TABLE [barney ]
(
barneyId INT
)


Then look at the following 4 statements which one will fail?
Do not run the statements try to guess, Is it A, B, C or D (or more than one?)

--A
INSERT [barney ] VALUES (1)

--B
INSERT barney VALUES (1)

--C
INSERT "barney" VALUES (1)

--D
INSERT [barney] VALUES (1)

BTW the idea for this post came after reading "Another reason to hate quoted identifiers..." on Louis Davidson's blog

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Im using SQL 2005 and none of them fail for me! 4 inserted rows.

Anonymous said...

Yep same here, I ran it on 2000 and 2005

I did expect the last two to fail somehow