why we can specify table names enclosing them with []

Is there a reason we can specify a tablename with [schema].[tableName] instead of just schema.tablename?

is it JUST to allow spaces in a tableName?

They're called Delimited Identifiers, and their primary purpose is to allow for special characters and keywords to be used in/as table names

For example, some genius decided the name of the primary table in a database I work with would be master, which is a keyword.

They're really not needed at all except in those cases.

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