title: Using backticks around field names
body: <p>After reading a couple of answers and comments on some SQL questions here, and also hearing that a friend of mine works at a place which has a policy which bans them, I'm wondering if there's anything wrong with using backticks around field names in MySQL.</p>
  
  <p>That is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>SELECT `id`, `name`, `anotherfield` ...
  -- vs --
  SELECT id, name, anotherfield ...
  </code></pre>