删除雪花中列名上的单引号

Question

I have come across a problem in a snowflake,

Query:

select 'name' as Name from profile

which returns the output as:

Name
________
name

name

name

name
.........

What I actually need is

select name as Name from profile

which will return the correct output which I expect as

Name
______________
Ram

Kishore

Rohit............

How will I remove the single quote in the select statement for the column name? I know its simple to just remove the single quote from name but my problem is that the name is a variable passed in a function and it is a varchar

Answer 1

'name' is a string, thus a constant, and why it is on every line.

a column name would ether be referenced with no quotes, or via double quotes "name" . But thus implies there is a column called name.

by default in Snowflake all tokens are case in sensitive if not double quouted as they are case to upper case, where as the tokens in double quotes are not projected to upper case form (unless the option to ignore case of double quoted names is on). So if you are directly want the name cloumn to be output as Name then you will need to use name as "Name" to avoid it becoming NAME

Answer 2

You can try using the IDENTIFIER function, which has examples at the bottom of the below page:

https://docs.snowflake.com/en/sql-reference/identifier-literal.html

Your example will look like:

select identifier('name') as Name from profile;