I used "from" and "to" as column titles in my database table, how do I SELECT them?

Question

So I made a table with columns "from" and "to".

While writing to the table is fine because I am inserting one value into each column (and not referencing the columns by name), but whenever I want to retrieve data (SELECT), I want to retrieve... say, only the "from" column.

Except as you guessed, it interprets "from" as an SQL command instead of a column name. Surrounding it in quotes just makes "from" populate the result set. Weird.

Can I do anything short of renaming the column? (Which isn't too bad, since the table really has no real data right now).

Thanks!

What I have now: SELECT from,id FROM permissions

Answer 1

Backticks should work in this situation.

e.g.

SELECT `from` FROM myTable;

But ideally you'd rename it. Perhaps to make it more descriptive also, e.g. "rangeFrom" or "dateFrom", etc.