Is there a "not allowed" character list for mysql table's column names?

Question

I couldn't find anything on google, maybe I am not searching the correct term. But is there a list of not allowed character for column names in mysql database ? I am particularly interested in the $ sign.

Answer 1

Extracted from the MySQL docs assuming you are using at least MySQL 5.0 or higher:

Permitted characters in unquoted identifiers:

• ASCII: [0-9,a-z,A-Z$_] (basic Latin letters, digits 0-9, dollar, underscore)

• Extended: U+0080 .. U+FFFF

Permitted characters in quoted identifiers include the full Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP), except U+0000:

• ASCII: U+0001 .. U+007F

• Extended: U+0080 .. U+FFFF

TL;DR

Answering your question, yes.. You can use the $ character in column names quoted or unquoted.