Source Database Artifact Naming Limits

Integration Services does not support source database table names and column names containing the characters listed in Table 22.

Note:

Table names may contain blank spaces. Column names may contain blank spaces and question marks.

Note:

Table and column names may be greater than 30 characters in length.

Table 22. Unsupported Characters in Table and Column Names

 

Character Description

 

Character Description

quotation mark

( )

parenthesis

&

ampersand

.

period

,

comma

|

vertical pipe

=

equal sign

'

single quotation mark

@

at sign

\

backslash

#

pound sign

/

forward slash

\t

Tab character

:

colon

 

blank space

*

asterisk

+

plus sign

?

question mark

-

dash, minus sign, or hyphen

<

less than sign

{ }

braces

>

more than sign