(Fwd) DBI Dilemma

"[email protected]" <[email protected]> Mon, 17 Aug 2015 22:42:10 +0100

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Date: Mon, 17 Aug 2015 17:51:41 +0000
From: "Adkins, Blake" <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Subject: DBI Dilemma

   Tim,

   I've been using your module to enable people in my group to do searches on a database that is regularly
   backed up as a .csv file. The problem here is with a particular column name. Of the 140 columns in the
   database, one is named DESC, short for description. This was established well before my time at the
   company and I believe the name comes from GE who makes the Cimplicity product. If I try to do a SELECT
   using that column, the script dies, or quietly passes DESC in the column header and all the rows. I've
   tried to figure out how to get around it without success. Do you have any suggestions aside from
   renaming the column? (I was thinking along  the lines of escaping the name)

   Thanks,

   Blake Adkins

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