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How to query a field in DBXQuery that contains colon?

LearningGuy
Motivator

Hello,
How to query a field in DBXQuery that contains colon?  
I ran the following query and got an error.  Thank you 
| dbxquery connection=visibility query="select abc:def from tableCompany"
org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: syntax error at or near ":" Position:

I tried to put single quote
| dbxquery connection=visibility query="select 'abc:def' from tableCompany"
but it gave me the following result

?column?
abc:def
abc:def



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etoombs
Path Finder

My bad. I didn't look to see what database you were using. You may need quotes around it = "abc:def". Since you're doing this inside a quoted string, you may need to escape them as \" in the string. 

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etoombs
Path Finder

My bad. I didn't look to see what database you were using. You may need quotes around it = "abc:def". Since you're doing this inside a quoted string, you may need to escape them as \" in the string. 

LearningGuy
Motivator


Your suggestion worked. Thank you so much
| dbxquery connection=visibility query="select \"abc:def\" from tableCompany"

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etoombs
Path Finder

Try brackets around the field name - [abc:def]

LearningGuy
Motivator

Hello,
I put brackets around the field name [abc:def], but it still didn't work and got the following error
org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: syntax error at or near "["

Thank you

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