>>>>Why do you need brackets around the fields when working with SQL Server? I think you only need the brackets if the field name is a reserved word in SQL Server.
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>>>Yes, you only need them around reserved words. But, have you seen the reserved words list?? It's very long. And its hard to avoid using some of them. So, a safety-net approach is to surround each table name and field name with [ ]. Problem solved.
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>>Or use prefixes for all your fields, that works as well.
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>Can't just go back and pepper in prefixes to fields. Just like any app, there would be hundred (thousands) of lines of code and reports that would break.

Of course, this was tongue in cheek. I fully expected a "now you tell me". I still have a few tables, in metadata only, without prefixes, and since their field names come from the same head which creates the variable names, guess how many bugs a year that causes :).