Delimited Identifiers (Metadata Names)

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In InterBase dialect 1, object names are not case sensitive, cannot be keywords, and cannot contain spaces or non-ASCII characters.

In dialect 3, object names that are enclosed in double quotes are delimited identifiers. They are case sensitive, can be keywords, and can contain spaces and non-ASCII characters. For example:

SELECT “CodAR” FROM MyTable

is different from:

SELECT “CODAR” FROM MyTable

This behavior conforms to ANSI SQL semantics for delimited identifiers.