RE: variables prefix - ?variable vs. $variable

On Tue, 31 Aug 2004, Seaborne, Andy wrote:

> SQL queries can contain ? in other places such as literals.  Presumably use
> of SQL interface placeholders are determined by some level of parsing, else

The issue is that the ? is always handled at the client/language side of
the *DBC connection. And hence very hard to escape; Using the likes of %,
!, ~, $ |, ^, & is a lot safer as it is handled on the server side.

Dw

Received on Tuesday, 31 August 2004 11:50:11 UTC