AThena single vs. double quotes
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Why does this query fail in Athena:
`SELECT COUNT (title) FROM "s3_library_data" WHERE s3_library_data.genre = "Science Fiction"`
but this one works?
`SELECT COUNT (title) FROM "s3_library_data" WHERE s3_library_data.genre = 'Science Fiction'`
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The single and double quote are used for different things.
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Single quotes are used to denote string literals. For example, if you want to search for a specific string value in a column, you would enclose the string in single quotes, like 'search string'.
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Double quotes are used to escape reserved keywords that are being used as column or table names.
In your first query you are looking for a literal value - Science Fiction. So you should use single quotes, not double quotes.
answered 2 months ago
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Thank you! My issue is the query is being generated by an LLM and I have been trying to "prompt it to use single quotes.