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Syntax documentation Regular Identifiers Locate the document in its SAP Library structure

A regular identifier is a character sequence starting with a letter followed by a sequence of letters, digits or the underscore sign. Although it can be typed in mixed case, it will be interpreted in upper case. That is the regular identifiers Hugo, hugo, HUGO name all the same database object.

An SQL reserved keyword may not be used as regular identifier The Structure linkTable Editor does not permit creating catalog objects with a name equal to a reserved keyword.

Syntax

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<regular identifier> ::= <letter> ( <letter> | <digit> | '_' )*.

 

<letter>s are the 52 Latin letters 'a' to 'z' and 'A' to 'Z'

 

<digit> is a digit from '0' to '9'.

Example

Example

SELECT col FROM dbtab WHERE DBTAB.COL = 'abc'

Regular Identifiers. In this example, coland COL denominate the same column, dbtaband DBTABdenominate the same table.

 

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