IdentifierQuoteChar

Description

Specifies the single quote character you want InfoMaker to use to delimit the names of identifiers (tables, columns, indexes, and constraints) when it generates SQL statements. InfoMaker uses the quote character you specify instead of the default quote character returned by your driver or data provider.

DelimitIdentifier must be set to Yes In order for IdentifierQuoteChar to take effect, the DelimitIdentifier parameter must be set to Yes. Otherwise, InfoMaker's default behavior is not to delimit identifiers in SQL statements and to ignore any value specified for IdentifierQuoteChar.

Applies to

JDB JDBC
ODBC (if driver and back-end DBMS support this feature)
OLE DB

Syntax

IdentifierQuoteChar = 'quote_character'

Parameter	Description
quote_character	The single character you want InfoMaker to use instead of your driver's or data provider's default quote character to delimit the names of identifiers in SQL statements.

Default

None

InfoMaker searches the following in this order to determine the IdentifierQuoteChar value:

The section for your database profile in the InfoMaker initialization file
The section for your ODBC driver in the PBODB115 initialization file or the section for your JDBC driver in the registry

If InfoMaker does not find an IdentifierQuoteChar value in these locations, it makes a SQLGetInfo call to your driver to return the default SQL_IDENTIFIER_QUOTE_CHAR value.

When using the OLE DB interface If no value is specified for the IdentifierQuoteChar parameter, InfoMaker does not use a quote character.

Usage

By default, some drivers return quote characters that do not work with InfoMaker’s parsing routines, such as the backquote character (`). As a result, delimiting is turned off for these drivers in InfoMaker.

However, if you paint SQL statements containing identifiers that require delimiters, syntax errors can occur if you are using a driver for which delimiting is turned off. To avoid such errors, set IdentifierQuoteChar to override the driver's default quote character.

Examples

Example 1

To specify c as the quote character you want InfoMaker to use to delimit identifiers in SQL statements, type c in the Identifier Quote Character box on the Syntax page in the Database Profile Setup dialog box.