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    <p>Java DB / Derby - white space in table (column) name - how to escape? In MySQL database it is escaped simply by &#96;&#96; (grave accent), but if I trying to execute query (Java DB) like: </p> <pre><code>CREATE TABLE `etc etc` (ID INT PRIMARY KEY, Title VARCHAR(12)) </code></pre> <p>I get the error: </p> <blockquote> <p>java.sql.SQLSyntaxErrorException: Lexical error at line 1, column 14. Encountered: "`" (96), after : "".</p> </blockquote> <p>Is there any solution?</p> <p><strong>EDITED:</strong></p> <p>Thanks for comprehensive answers indeed. I found interesting thing (Java DB):</p> <p>it was OK to create table like this:</p> <pre><code>CREATE TABLE "etc etc" (ID INT PRIMARY KEY, Title VARCHAR(12)) </code></pre> <p>and later to get the results:</p> <pre><code>SELECT * FROM "etc etc" </code></pre> <p>But if I create the table like this (without white space and quotes):</p> <pre><code>CREATE TABLE etc_etc (ID INT PRIMARY KEY, Title VARCHAR(12)) </code></pre> <p>and later get the results like this (with double quotes, just for example, they don't really needed):</p> <pre><code>SELECT * FROM "etc_etc" </code></pre> <p>I get the error: </p> <blockquote> <p>java.sql.SQLSyntaxErrorException: Table/View 'etc_etc' does not exist.</p> </blockquote> <p>So my conclusion is that if quotes were used while creating the table (it is not important if the name contains white space or not), later, while getting the results, quotes also should be used. And vice versa (int this case of course without white space).</p> <p>I agree it is better not to use white space, instead <code>_</code> character. But I liked on MySQL those &#96; grave accent characters...</p>
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    1. COGeneral people dont use whitespace in table names, they prefer the `_` charecter ... what made you decide to go with spaces?
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    2. CODid you tried using `"` for escape character? `CREATE TABLE "etc etc" (ID INT PRIMARY KEY, Title VARCHAR(12))`
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    3. COThat's precisely what I stated in my answer: using a quoted identifier makes it case-sensitive (as required by the SQL standard).
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