Prospective agenda for VOQL session in Madrid

[Maria A. Nieto-Santisteban]

I will take the liberty to answer

> This sounds quite good for most of the problematic column names.
> 
> There is however, not a small number of columns (>1800) in the literature
> with brackets in their names, eg, metal aboundances, forbidden or
> semiforbidden transitions, etc. How are those cases supposed to be handled?
>

It has been always agreed that services publishing data are responsible to
be complaint with the protocols. Services providing access to catalogs
with columns names including brackets and other funny characters will have
to either change their names ( ;-) ) or hide with mapping procedures their
original name. 

> The same question arises with table/column names differing just by 
> their case (lower/uppercase names) which should clearly be stated.

to me this case is clear ... SQL is case insensitive. To my knowledge 
only mySQL working with linux make distinctions between upper and lower 
case which I consider a "bug".

Cheers,

Maria