I see people putting "`" around input for the SQL, why?

Oh I get you now. Blond moment!

Basically the back-ticks should only be around the table names for the very reason that it distinguishes between a user string and a reserved word in MySQL:


Whereas the back-ticks tell MySQL that count and desc are user entities, and not MySQL commands:

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-It defines commands from user entities as wild pointed out
-It looks cleaner in my opinion

I personally find it good coding to use the brackets so that if you accidentally name a table or field a command name, you wont have to worry about an error.

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No one said this directly but hinted at it ... I believe the back ticks are MySQL specific.

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Eric