Wave Analytics SAQL Reference

SAQL Overview
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SAQL Basic Elements
Statements
Keywords
Identifiers
Number Literals
String Literals
Boolean Literals
Quoted String Escape Sequences
Special Characters
Comments
Nulls and Nulls in Measures
SAQL Operators
SAQL Statements
SAQL Functions
Query Performance
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Identifiers

SAQL identifiers are case-sensitive. They can be enclosed in single quotation marks (') or no quotation marks.

Quoted identifiers can contain any character that a string can contain.

Unquoted identifiers can’t be a reserved words and must start with a letter (A to Z or a to z) or an underscore. Subsequent characters can be letters, numbers, or underscores. Unquoted identifiers can’t contain spaces.

This example uses valid syntax:
In the following example, the code in the third line throws an error:

A set of characters in double quotes is treated as a string rather than as an identifier.

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