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title: Identifiers
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displayTitle: Identifiers
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license: |
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Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
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contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
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this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
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The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
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(the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
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the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
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http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
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Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
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distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
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WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
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See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
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limitations under the License.
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---
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### Description
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An identifier is a string used to identify a database object such as a table, view, schema, column, etc. Spark SQL has regular identifiers and delimited identifiers, which are enclosed within backticks. Both regular identifiers and delimited identifiers are case-insensitive.
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### Syntax
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#### Regular Identifier
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```sql
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{ letter | digit | '_' } [ , ... ]
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```
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**Note:** If `spark.sql.ansi.enabled` is set to true, ANSI SQL reserved keywords cannot be used as identifiers. For more details, please refer to [ANSI Compliance](sql-ref-ansi-compliance.html).
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#### Delimited Identifier
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```sql
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`c [ ... ]`
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```
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### Parameters
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* **letter**
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Any letter from A-Z or a-z.
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* **digit**
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Any numeral from 0 to 9.
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* **c**
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Any character from the character set. Use <code>`</code> to escape special characters (e.g., <code>`</code>).
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### Examples
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```sql
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-- This CREATE TABLE fails with ParseException because of the illegal identifier name a.b
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CREATE TABLE test (a.b int);
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org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.parser.ParseException:
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no viable alternative at input 'CREATE TABLE test (a.'(line 1, pos 20)
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-- This CREATE TABLE works
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CREATE TABLE test (`a.b` int);
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-- This CREATE TABLE fails with ParseException because special character ` is not escaped
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CREATE TABLE test1 (`a`b` int);
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org.apache.spark.sql.catalyst.parser.ParseException:
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no viable alternative at input 'CREATE TABLE test (`a`b`'(line 1, pos 23)
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-- This CREATE TABLE works
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CREATE TABLE test (`a``b` int);
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```
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