Are there any advantages/disadvantages to using and of the ` " or ' punctuation symbols in MySQL queries? I usually only put them around variables (after being sanitized, of course): INSERT INTO places (country, city) VALUES ('$country', '$city') Any thoughts on the issue? Thanks. Dotan Cohen http://lyricslist.com/lyrics/artist_albums/135/creed.html http://what-is-what.com/what_is/adsl.html -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php