Answer by Frank Heikens for Benefits of using backtick (`) in MySQL queries?

If you want to use something around object identifiers, use at least the standard double quotes: "

This works in MySQL, PostgreSQL, SQL Server, Oracle, etc. etc. For MySQL you might need the SQL modeansi_quotes, depending on the default configuration:

SET sql_mode = 'ANSI_QUOTES';

Backticks ` are only used in MySQL, you learn a type of SQL that won't work in any other brand of DBMS.