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 <p>If you have configured a database prefix and would like to add it in manually for, you can use the following.</p>
 <p><code>$this-&gt;db-&gt;dbprefix('tablename');<br />
 // outputs prefix_tablename</code></p>
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+
 <h1>Protecting identifiers</h1>
-<p>In many databases it is advisable to protect table and field names - for example with backticks in MySQL. Active Record queries are automatically protected, however if you need to manually protect an identifier you can use:</p>
+<p>In many databases it is advisable to protect table and field names - for example with backticks in MySQL. <strong>Active Record queries are automatically protected</strong>, however if you need to manually protect an identifier you can use:</p>
 <p><code>$this-&gt;db-&gt;protect_identifiers('table_name');</code></p>
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+<p>This function will also add a table prefix to your table, assuming you have a prefix specified in your database config file. To enable the prefixing set <kbd>TRUE</kbd> (boolen) via the second parameter:</p>
+<p><code>$this-&gt;db-&gt;protect_identifiers('table_name', <kbd>TRUE</kbd>);</code></p>
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+
 <h1>Escaping Queries</h1>
 <p>It's a very good security practice to escape your data before submitting it into your database.
 CodeIgniter has two functions that help you do this:</p>