Humbly Confident Senior Laravel Engineer
Author: drweb
Recently I ran across some code that used a lot of QUOTENAME() calls. A colleague was having some trouble with the code, but what struck me was that I hadn’t often delved into the details of QUOTENAME and how it can be used in different ways. I’d always just passed in a string as a single parameter.This post looks at a few details of how this function works.Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers.QUOTENAMEThe idea behind QUOTENAME() is that you pass in a string that might…
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