Best practice for the use of reserved words

Hi,
What is the best practice to observe for using reserved words as column names.
For example if I insisted on using the word comment for a column name by doing the following:
CREATE TABLE ...
"COMMENT" VARCHAR2(4000),
What impact down the track could I expect and what problems should I be aware of when doing something like this?
Thank You
Ben

Hi, Ben,
Benton wrote:
Hi,
What is the best practice to observe for using reserved words as column names.Sybrand is right (as usual): the best practice is not to use them
For example if I insisted on using the word comment for a column name by doing the following:
CREATE TABLE ...
"COMMENT" VARCHAR2(4000),
What impact down the track could I expect and what problems should I be aware of when doing something like this?Using reserved words as identifiers is asking for trouble. You can expect to get what you ask for.
Whatever benefits you may get from naming the column COMMENT rather than, say, CMNT or EMP_COMMENT (if the table is called EMP) will be insignificant compared to the extra debugging you will certainly need.

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