Square brackets in T-SQL

Could someone please explain the difference between, these two commands:
SELECT * FROM [DB_NAME].[SCHEMA_NAME].[TABLE_NAME]
SELECT * FROM [DB_NAME.SCHEMA_NAME.TABLE_NAME]
Thanks,
Abhi

Please also take a look the article below:
Delimited Identifiers (Database Engine):
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms176027.aspx
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Eg:->
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Prashanth ,
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Code Snippet
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OUTSIDE
.OUTSIDE_SALES,
INSIDE.INSIDE_SALES,
CUST.CUST_NAME,
SOE.CUSTOMER_NO,
SOE.SALE_ORDER_NO,
SOE.INVOICED_DATE,
PICKUP.PICKUP,
(SOE.SALES_AMT/100) AS SALES,
(SOE.COST_GOODS_SOLD/100) AS COGS,
(SOE.SALES_AMT/100) - (SOE.COST_GOODS_SOLD/100) AS MARGIN,
COUNT(TRACKING.PALLET_ID)
FROM
SOE_HEADER SOE
INNER JOIN CUST_NAME CUST
ON SOE.CUSTOMER_NO = CUST.CUSTOMER_NO
INNER JOIN INSIDE_SALES INSIDE
ON SOE.INSIDE_ROUTE = INSIDE.INSIDE_ROUTE
INNER JOIN OUTSIDE_SALES OUTSIDE
ON SOE.SALESMAN_NO = OUTSIDE.SALESMAN_NO
INNER JOIN PICKUP PICKUP
ON SOE.TYPE_OF_FRGHT = PICKUP.TYPE_OF_FRGHT
INNER JOIN PALLET_SALES_ORD SALES
ON SOE.SALE_ORDER_NO = SALES.SALE_ORDER_NO
INNER JOIN PALLET_TRACKING TRACKING
ON SALES.PALLET_ID = TRACKING.PALLET_ID
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AND SOE.ORDERS_STATUS = '06'
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AND SOE.CUSTOMER_NO <> '1000039000'
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AND SOE.CUSTOMER_NO <> '1014869001'
AND SOE.CUSTOMER_NO <> '1014869002'
AND SOE.CUSTOMER_NO <> '1014869003'
AND SOE.CUSTOMER_NO <> '1014889000'
AND SOE.CUSTOMER_NO <> '1014890000'
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AND SOE.CUSTOMER_NO <> '4499998000'
AND SOE.CUSTOMER_NO <> '4500012000'
AND SOE.CUSTOMER_NO <> '4500018000'
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SOE.SALE_ORDER_NO,
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HTH!

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From a SQL Server 2012 installation, executing either:
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sqlcmd /E -S <ServerName> -Q "PRINT CHAR(91) + 'A], [B], [C]'"
gives:-
, [B], [C]
wheras for 2005, 2008 or 2008R2, gives the expected result of:-
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or similar.
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It must be tokenizing the [A] for some reason.
So, its not a [A] which is a problem its "[" as the first character of the output.
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If there is not matching closing "]" it shows the text with additional message.
Workaround - Just add additional space prior to square bracket and it works fine.
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Round and square brackets in regexp

Hello,
Can someone please explain to me what is the difference between:
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and
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I mean, what is the main difference between round brackets with the alternation operator and square brackets in regular expressions?
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It will perhaps be clearer if you look at it with more than just single characters...
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thXXX XXX fred XXX hXXX test string
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thXXXXXX XXXXXX freXXX XXXXXXXXX hXXXXXX teXXXt XXXtrXXXXXXg
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A fairly easy way is to have one counter variable per bracket-set you want to test for balance and count this vairable up each time you meet an opening bracket (outside a qouted string) and down each time you meet a closing bracket (also outside a qouted string)...
If these counters does not finish with having their initial values (eg. zero) the one set not balanced is the one whose counter variable is not zero (positive for too many opening brackets, negative for too many closing brackets)
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int countCurlyBrackets = 0;
int countParenthesis = 0;
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switch (line.charAt(index)) {
case '[': ++countSquareBrackets; break;
case ']': --countSquareBrackets; break;
case '{': ++countCurlyBrackets; break;
case '}': --countCurlyBrackets; break;
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When I open an excel file (via a button) , it has the filename as follows:
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I am new at Java and have a problem with regular expressions. Let me describe the issue in 3 steps:
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}something like that. This code will only find the firt word however. I do not know much about regex so I cannot help anymore.
Edited by: elasolova on Jun 16, 2009 6:45 AM
Edited by: elasolova on Jun 16, 2009 6:46 AM

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