title: Hyphens in column names in MySQL DB
body: <p>May be this question has been answered before but I couldn't find it.</p>
  
  <p>I am using a 2/3 yr old MySQL database which has hyphens in its column names. When I try to use these names from my Java code, the names are broken at the hyphen (e.g. air_port becomes air) and thus are not found. I tried replacing hyphens to underscores in my code hoping that the DB might treat them equally but that doesn't work. </p>
  
  <p>How can I escape the hyphen or how can I access these columns ? Could this be an issue of the character set being used ?</p>