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<LI><H2>Most people are familiar with how to portably quote a string literal:
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$dbh->quote($value)
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<LI><H2>Its now also possible to portably quote identifiers like table names:
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$dbh->quote_identifier($name1, $name2, $name3, \%attr)
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$dbh->quote_identifier( undef, 'Her schema', 'My table' );
<BR><BR>using DBD::Oracle: "Her schema"."My table
<BR>using DBD::mysql: `Her schema`.`My table`
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<LI><H2>If three names are supplied then the first is assumed to be a catalog name and special rules may be applied based on what get_info() returns for SQL_CATALOG_NAME_SEPARATOR and SQL_CATALOG_LOCATION. For example:
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$dbh->quote_identifier( link, schema, table );
<BR><BR>using DBD::Oracle: "schema"."table"@"link"</UL></UL></P>
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