How do I escape reserved words used as column names? MySQL/Create Table

Question

I am generating tables from classes in .NET and one problem is a class may have a field name key which is a reserved MySQL keyword. How do I escape it in a create table statement? (Note: The other problem below is text must be a fixed size to be indexed/unique)

create table if not exists misc_info (
id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT NOT NULL,
key TEXT UNIQUE NOT NULL,
value TEXT NOT NULL)ENGINE=INNODB;

Answer 1

You should use back tick character (`) eg:

create table if not exists misc_info (
id INTEGER PRIMARY KEY AUTO_INCREMENT NOT NULL,
`key` TEXT UNIQUE NOT NULL,
value TEXT NOT NULL)ENGINE=INNODB;

Answer 2

Use double quotes with ANSI SQL mode enabled or back ticks (Source: http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.1/en/reserved-words.html)