Using Quotes in a Query

I am running CF MX7 Enterprise, and using a Sybase driver as
the datasource. I can run this query just fine:
select my_field from my_table
where my_key = '1234'
but I get an error when I replace the single quotes with
double quotes (shift-quote on the keyboard), like this:
select my_field from my_table
where my_key = "1234"
If I switch to an ODBC socket either one will work. It's just
the Sybase driver that throws the error. Does anyone have any
expeience with this?

gmtjr wrote:
> I am running CF MX7 Enterprise, and using a Sybase
driver as the datasource. I
> can run this query just fine:
>
> select my_field from my_table
> where my_key = '1234'
>
> but I get an error when I replace the single quotes with
double quotes
> (shift-quote on the keyboard), like this:
>
> select my_field from my_table
> where my_key = "1234"
>
> If I switch to an ODBC socket either one will work. It's
just the Sybase
> driver that throws the error.
Every proper database server will throw an error because the
SQL
standard says that you are not supposed to do that.
Convert your queries to use cfqueryparam to solve the
problem.
Jochem
Jochem van Dieten
Adobe Community Expert for ColdFusion

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